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
But as for Harriet, the eldest, and her mother's darling, you will soon be sensible of some of her charms.
From Abbeychurch by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Of course she was of infinitely less importance than her brother, who was a baronet, the head of that branch of the Carburys, and her mother's darling; and, therefore, a few words should suffice.
From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony
“My baby, mother's darling, mother's baby!” she gasped out with great pants of satisfied love; but another pair of lean, wiry old arms stole around the child's slender body.
From The Portion of Labor by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
