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

This bantling mayoral," muttered the landlord, "keeps his mask up.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Did Dorsey at Saint Louis treat it as his bantling? or did he say to Miner, "This is all I will do"?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Madagascar is, perhaps, above all other countries, the bantling and the plaything of the storm, and thunder and lightning.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

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