mother's darling
Example Sentences
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Gerry, his mother’s darling, owns a nearby tavern and has lived at home since an unspecified tragedy related to Sept.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2012
Second part: Fernand Cazenave, cousin of Jean Pelou�yre, has been his widowed mother's darling from infancy.
From Time Magazine Archive
You mean that knockkneed mother's darling who seems to be slightly crawsick?
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Watch any fair flock of children in which there may be one blighted bud, and you will see that that blighted one is the mother's darling.
From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony
An only child, and an invalid, poor Bleuet was of course a spoiled child, his mother's darling and pet.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various
