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

Bullock had contracted for, and superintended the building of the Alabama, and was now going with me, to be present at the christening of his bantling.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

The Seraph, mightily confused at being called a bantling, giggled inanely, so I replied again.

From Explorers of the Dawn by Morley, Christopher

Sir Flapwing was of high degree, As fine a bantling as you'd see 'Twixt Amsterdam and Paris, he.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various