bantling
Example Sentences
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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
Who knew but that the white woman's ghost would rise out of the kopje there, some dark night, and pinch and cuff and thump and beat people who had ill-used her bantling?
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
A long time, however, must have elapsed before the bantling took heart of grace and found strength to run alone.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
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 Raphael Semmes
If any author laid under contribution were to recognise his bantling, he could only cry to it, "Bless thee, Bottom, thou art translated."
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
