bantling

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There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.

From Time Magazine Archive

This bantling mayoral," muttered the landlord, "keeps his mask up.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

And finally, we would remind the rejected one that, after all, his bantling has been exhibited in the R.A.—to the president and his colleagues engaged in the work of selection.

From Mr. Punch in Bohemia by Various

The Landau, so fast disappearing from our streets and roads, was but a puny bantling of a vehicle in comparison with the older and more august conveyance. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham

In short, they have “cast the bantling on the rocks.”

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David