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
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
There is no excuse possible, and yet it was solely to gratify my mother's darling wish that I consented to marry Katharina.—
From The Bride of the Nile — Volume 06 by Bell, Clara
James was the youngest of four brothers and two sisters, a handsome boy, and his mother's darling.
From Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans by Cody, Sherwin
