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

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 Dehan, Richard

Love to L., the Captain, and the Violet, and give your bantling a kiss extraordinary for Grandpapa.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

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

Nurse C. would, oh! so gladly, "Nicodemus The bantling into Nothing."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 by Various