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

There was a pucker between Dorothy's dark eyebrows as she snatched back her literary bantling.

From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Brazil, Angela

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

It was a sickly bantling, and had to change its name the following year to the Journal des Voyages.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

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)