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
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
In short, they have “cast the bantling on the rocks.”
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson
Then would my courage, a very ricketty bantling, make weak protest: "You faced a blunderbuss and a volley of slugs, and you were not afraid."
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Madagascar is, perhaps, above all other countries, the bantling and the plaything of the storm, and thunder and lightning.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
