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

Everybody laughed last Session when Tony, with much gurgling, produced this bantling; brings it out again to-night.

From Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. by Various

Love to L., the Captain, and the Violet, and give your bantling a kiss extraordinary for Grandpapa.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

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 Graham, Harry

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