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
Her daughter was only too like her in disposition; but she was her mother's darling.
From Polish Fairy Tales by Glinski, A. J.
Let me kiss you, my treasure, mother's darling!
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
Perhaps you do," jeered Davy Jones, who could take hard knocks without any whimper; "but mother's darling boy ain't home right now.
From The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol by Carter, Herbert
