The Seraph, mightily confused at being called a bantling, giggled inanely, so I replied again. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers of the Dawn] Reference
Bill your bantling, or that of your leader, Lord Stanley?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
“Is this hedge-bantling to be fathered on you, Mr. Frank?”. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
‘The bird and bantling they call it in Derbyshire, sir,’ said Stanley. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
But a Brummagem bantling, picked hup, as were not worth its swaddlin 'and food. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891] Reference
He laughs! what has he to laugh at? what wooll did his father give for the bantling?. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
My bantling was given up by all the faculty, when you were happily shown into the boxes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
'My tear poy,' Darco answered, 'if you haf cot a new way of bantling an old itea you are ferry lucky. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
But after such wet and miserable nights as he had recently passed, Inman felt like God's most marauded bantling. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Clive, in the House of Lords, was nursing a still younger bantling, now an empire twice as populous as Europe was at that period. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
It was murdering one bantling to make place for another. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference
"Is this hedge-bantling to be fathered on you, Mr. Frank?". From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference
'The bird and bantling they call it in Derbyshire, sir,' said. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
Hear how their bantling has already learned to lisp sedition. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
` ` The bird and bantling they call it in Derbyshire, sir, '' said. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
It is no excuse that the illegitimate bantling is a very little one. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
'The bird and bantling they call it in Derbyshire, sir,' said Stanley. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
Your bantling is grown-up: you can keep her no longer beneath your wing. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Pixie] Reference
"Well, if you aren't armed -- every man-jack of you -- even to the bantling!" he cried. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers of the Dawn] Reference
Gossip of this interesting bantling, which was forthwith dandled in dozens of feminine laps. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
However, it is still a bantling of modern chemistry, who has nodded very affectionately on it!. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
Promising the sick woman to come back to her, she lifted the dark bantling again, and set off towards the slope. From Wordnik.com. [Romola] Reference
It might, however, be shown that by right of true paternity the bantling should have borne a different patronymic. From Wordnik.com. [John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series] Reference
I was the bantling son of one of your father's provincial correspondents, to adopt the suave term of the foreigners. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories] Reference
Thus secured, the bantling is carried about on its mother's back, or allowed to sprawl on the ground, in all weathers and all seasons. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River] Reference
The bantling in petticoats who could astound his elders with wonderfully accurate silhouettes, continued to surprise them in other ways. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
If any author laid under contribution were to recognise his bantling, he could only cry to it, "Bless thee, Bottom, thou art translated.". From Wordnik.com. [William Shakespeare] Reference
Thomas Paine produced the "Rights of Man," Thomas Jefferson acting as midwife to usher the bantling before the people of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series] Reference
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