The poet's darling. [ Wordsworth ]

Who can foretell for what high cause
This darling of the gods was born? [ Andrew Marvell ]

The ape hugs her darling till she kills it. [ Proverb ]

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. [ Bacon ]

A little, tiny, pretty, witty, charming darling she. [ Lucretius ]

He has great need of a wife that marries mamma's darling. [ Proverb ]

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face. [ Longfellow ]

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. [ Dryden ]

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had his Pompeii? Deep under ashes lie life, youth, the careless sports, the pleasures and passions, the darling joy. [ William M. Thackeray ]

If flowers have souls, said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers. They go, answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips. [ Richter ]