bantling

Example Sentences

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And, were she dressed in boy's clothes, she would be indistinguishable from the bantlings of the mine where her father worked.

From Time Magazine Archive

To begin the fight is vastly easier than to maintain it, and not one in a hundred of these bantlings will ever know maturity.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George

I decided to watch her, and, if possible, find her bantlings.

From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

It contained three callow bantlings, which innocently opened their carmine-lined mouths when I stirred the leaves above them.

From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

The high-spirited bantlings had a way of pummelling one another in fistic duels, and of calling in their respective mothers when they got the worse of it—which is cowardly, but human.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel