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
Thank you, mother's darling," Elsie said, accepting the gift and tenderly caressing the giver; "you and papa, too.
From Elsie's Womanhood by Finley, Martha
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
The instinct of generosity, the instinct of self-sacrifice, moved him now as, long ago one fatal night, they had moved him to bear the sin of his mother's darling as his own.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
