bantling

That bothersome bantling, the big Irish baby, Is tucked up in bed for a long forty winks.

There are some persons who are of too fastidious a turn of mind to like anything long, or to assent twice to the same opinion. —— always sets himself to prop the falling cause, to nurse the rickety bantling.

The intelligently pious Tillotson wishes Mother Church well rid of the bantling; and poor George the Third himself, with all his immense genius for orthodoxy, could not take kindly to it.

The Catholic clergy grew suspicious of the reformers who extolled the conduct of France, because the new r�gime had produced Free Thought, or rather had endowed the bantling with strength which the great Voltaire had nourished.

You see it will not fit anything else except another lie that you make, and you have to start a factory in a short time to make lies enough to support that poor little bantling that you left on the door-step of your honesty.