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
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 William Bodham Donne
Sir Flapwing was of high degree, As fine a bantling as you'd see 'Twixt Amsterdam and Paris, he.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
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 G. W. (George William) Foote
Do you recall those bygone days, When you received with kindly praise My bantling book of Rhyme?
From Perverted Proverbs A Manual of Immorals for the Many by Harry Graham
