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
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.
From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote
Bullock had contracted for, and superintended the building of the Alabama, and was now going with me, to be present at the christening of his bantling.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
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 Richard Dehan
To that place I was directed, where liv'd the maid that put the bantling out to be nurs'd by my wife for her lady; and who she was, 'tis none of our business to enquire.
From Three Hours after Marriage by John Arbuthnot
