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

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 Julian Sharman

If any author laid under contribution were to recognise his bantling, he could only cry to it, "Bless thee, Bottom, thou art translated."

From William Shakespeare by John Masefield

And finally, we would remind the rejected one that, after all, his bantling has been exhibited in the R.A.—to the president and his colleagues engaged in the work of selection.

From Mr. Punch in Bohemia by Various

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 Angela Brazil