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.
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It was a sickly bantling, and had to change its name the following year to the Journal des Voyages.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
Nurse C. would, oh! so gladly, "Nicodemus The bantling into Nothing."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 by Various
Madagascar is, perhaps, above all other countries, the bantling and the plaything of the storm, and thunder and lightning.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
In short, they have “cast the bantling on the rocks.”
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.