bantling

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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 bantling clergyman, who was spoken of with masculine approval because he smoked a pipe and said charmingly naughty things.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair

The Landau, so fast disappearing from our streets and roads, was but a puny bantling of a vehicle in comparison with the older and more august conveyance. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham

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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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 Semmes, Raphael