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

Love to L., the Captain, and the Violet, and give your bantling a kiss extraordinary for Grandpapa.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

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

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 Sharman, Julian

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 Masefield, John