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

Sir Flapwing was of high degree, As fine a bantling as you'd see 'Twixt Amsterdam and Paris, he.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

And never did a prouder heart beat than the heart under my white frock that day for my first-born bantling of the pen.

From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.

Do you recall those bygone days, When you received with kindly praise My bantling book of Rhyme?

From Perverted Proverbs A Manual of Immorals for the Many by Graham, Harry