bantling

• After much discussion, we settled on St. Paul's as the name for our bantling—not as being in any way new, but as enabling it to fall easily into the ranks with many others. —  Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
• Thus Congress somewhat sneeringly handed back to the President his bantling, with free leave to do what he could with it. —  Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II
• His bantling, which he had named universal amnesty and universal suffrage, which he had so often dressed and undressed in the presence of the Senate, the darling offspring of his brain, was dead; it had died in the caucus; and it was left to the sad Senator only to hope that it might not be his last. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• Buonaparte's passion for his bantling was once more the ardor of a misdirected genius unsullied by the desire for money, which had played a temporary part We know nothing definite of his pecuniary affairs, but somehow or other his fortunes must have mended. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• Your bantling is grown-up: you can keep her no longer beneath your wing. —  The Love Affairs of Pixie

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