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

A long time, however, must have elapsed before the bantling took heart of grace and found strength to run alone.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

This bantling mayoral," muttered the landlord, "keeps his mask up.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

To that place I was directed, where liv'd the maid that put the bantling out to be nurs'd by my wife for her lady; and who she was, 'tis none of our business to enquire.

From Three Hours after Marriage by Arbuthnot, John

Bullock had contracted for, and superintended the building of the Alabama, and was now going with me, to be present at the christening of his bantling.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael