mother's darling
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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
It was matter of rumor that she would, for an extra large sum, take a wicked fairy's ugly brat, and put it in place of a mother's darling.
From Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis
Everett was educated at home; he was not strong, and was naturally his mother's darling, and she persuaded his father and herself that a public school would be harmful to him.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
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 Clara Bell
Evidently the younger son was the mother's darling; but her mode of bringing him up was not happy in its effects, as he seems to have given continual anxiety and trouble.
From Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings by Mary F. (Mary Frances) Sandars
