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
He once did stride his father’s knee— A little horseman bold and free; And, should thou trace this pedigree, Thy mother’s darling pet was he— Thy little brother.
From Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
Unhappy me! how bootless were the pains Which many a day I spent in nursing thee, A labour that I loved, for thou wert not Thy mother's darling more than thou wert mine.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin
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
