bantlings

No mother succeeds better in the rearing of her children than she who has a nursery dining-room, where, under her own eye, her bantlings are properly fed.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Sir F. BANBURY, asserted that there was no such thing in reality as the Ten Minutes 'Rule, and pictured the possibility of whole days being swallowed up by a succession of private Members commending their legislative bantlings one after another with the brief explanatory statement permitted on such occasions.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919 Various

Rough discipline in youth is England's system with all her bantlings.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

What species of giant the watchful affection of Motherland awaits in a literature whose unfledged bantlings are Cooper, Emerson, Holmes, Motley and Lowell, our imagination does not attempt to depict.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

One day I tried my best to find a nest with eggs or bantlings in it, but failed, although, as a slight compensation,

Birds of the Rockies 1896

No red-winged blackbirds had been seen in the Georgetown valley, while here there was a large colony of them, many carrying food to the bantlings in grass and bush.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

One can readily fancy, therefore, that the nests of these birds are often surrounded with snow, and that the bantlings may get their first view of the world in the swirl of a snow-squall.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

This nest contained four bantlings, already well fledged.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

It must not be supposed that the bantlings opened their mouths, as most young birds do, to receive the tidbits.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

Replacing the youngster in its crib, I stepped back a short distance and watched the mother bird returning with another mouthful of "goodies," and feeding her bantlings four.

Birds of the Rockies 1896