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

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

To that place I was directed, where liv'd the maid that put the bantling out to be nurs'd by my wife for her lady; and who she was, 'tis none of our business to enquire.

From Three Hours after Marriage by Arbuthnot, John

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

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

At the Brighton Show of 1886 there were two cats, both reared by dogs, the foster-mother and her bantling showing evident signs of sincere affection.

From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Weir, Harrison