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
Second part: Fernand Cazenave, cousin of Jean Pelou�yre, has been his widowed mother's darling from infancy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been his mother's darling; she had impoverished herself, expending all the profits of their little business to send him to college.
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
His brothers had entered cadets' corps; he was the youngest, his mother's darling, and of delicate constitution; he stopped at home.
From On the Eve by Garnett, Constance
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
