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

There was a pucker between Dorothy's dark eyebrows as she snatched back her literary bantling.

From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Brazil, Angela

To that place I was directed, where liv'd the maid that put the bantling out to be nurs'd by my wife for her lady; and who she was, 'tis none of our business to enquire.

From Three Hours after Marriage by Arbuthnot, John

My bantling was thus born upon the high seas, in the South Atlantic Ocean, and no power could gainsay the legitimacy of its birth.

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

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