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)

There is no reason that such a bantling should be born at all, and at least we would recommend the continuance of gestation for nine times the Horatian period.

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

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

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