bantling
Example Sentences
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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
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
Who knew but that the white woman's ghost would rise out of the kopje there, some dark night, and pinch and cuff and thump and beat people who had ill-used her bantling?
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
The other, Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, was a ruggeder bantling, containing almost the first blank verse poems ever written in Scottish dialect.
And never did a prouder heart beat than the heart under my white frock that day for my first-born bantling of the pen.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
