bantling

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

Promising the sick woman to come back to her, she lifted the dark bantling again, and set off towards the slope.

From Romola by George Eliot

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 Harry Graham

At the Brighton Show of 1886 there were two cats, both reared by dogs, the foster-mother and her bantling showing evident signs of sincere affection.

From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir

There is no reason that such a bantling should be born at all, and at least we would recommend the continuance of gestation for nine times the Horatian period.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various