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

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)

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

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

Promising the sick woman to come back to her, she lifted the dark bantling again, and set off towards the slope.

From Romola by Eliot, George