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

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