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
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 Angela Brazil
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
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
And never did a prouder heart beat than the heart under my white frock that day for my first-born bantling of the pen.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black
