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

Buonaparte's passion for his bantling was once more the ardor of a misdirected genius unsullied by the desire for money, which had played a temporary part.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

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

Madagascar is, perhaps, above all other countries, the bantling and the plaything of the storm, and thunder and lightning.

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

The intelligently pious Tillotson wishes Mother Church well rid of the bantling; and poor George the Third himself, with all his immense genius for orthodoxy, could not take kindly to it.

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)