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

The other, Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, was a ruggeder bantling, containing almost the first blank verse poems ever written in Scottish dialect.

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various

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

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

From Explorers of the Dawn by Morley, Christopher

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