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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The other, Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, was a ruggeder bantling, containing almost the first blank verse poems ever written in Scottish dialect.
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
I vehemently importune ye to be convinced, that for my bantling I desire neither rattle nor bells; neither the lullaby of praise, nor the pap of patronage, nor the hobby-horse of honour.
From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas
Nurse C. would, oh! so gladly, "Nicodemus The bantling into Nothing."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 by Various