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

In short, they have “cast the bantling on the rocks.”

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David

This was careful dry-nursing for the bantling which had been provided with so comfortable a cradle in the State Department.

From James Madison by Gay, Sydney Howard

Then would my courage, a very ricketty bantling, make weak protest: "You faced a blunderbuss and a volley of slugs, and you were not afraid."

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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