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 Brazil, Angela
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 Weir, Harrison
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 Black, Helen C.
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
