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
This was careful dry-nursing for the bantling which had been provided with so comfortable a cradle in the State Department.
From James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay
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 John Arbuthnot
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
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
