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

A bantling clergyman, who was spoken of with masculine approval because he smoked a pipe and said charmingly naughty things.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair

She had spent more than an hour the evening before writing a story, and was rather proud of her first-born literary bantling.

From A Fortunate Term by Brazil, Angela

Bullock had contracted for, and superintended the building of the Alabama, and was now going with me, to be present at the christening of his bantling.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

There is no reason that such a bantling should be born at all, and at least we would recommend the continuance of gestation for nine times the Horatian period.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various