deary
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It comes when Callas, resplendent even in a bathrobe, glides into the kitchen to sing at Bruna while the poor deary cooks her an omelet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
But I’m content, for it’s comin’ to me, my deary, and comin’ quick.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Laurie thanked her with a look that made her think in a sudden panic, “Oh, deary me! I know he’ll say something, and then what shall I do?”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Oh yes, deary, I know what you would say!
From Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Lucy Now, deary, tell me all about it.
From Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
Step on a crack, my dearies, step on a crack and teach your granny to suck eggs from her one basket.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019
We had them all: cat’s-eyes, aggies, dearies, milkies, steelies, glassies, onionskins.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Really, dearies, they catapulted back and forth like rockets!
From Polly in New York by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Ah, dearies, that was the effort of me life!
From David and the Phoenix by Joan Raysor
Now, dearies, a little tea and toast, just to please Felicia Rivers, and because you remind her of her own sweet little lamb cousins who are out in the rain somewhere to-night.”
From The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Katherine Stokes
