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

I believe that Mr. James Thompson and Colonel Mead suckled the bantling in times of yore, sometimes forming the entire of the Club without assistance.

From The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Edge, Frederick Milnes

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 Sharman, Julian

This bantling mayoral," muttered the landlord, "keeps his mask up.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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