In due time the hardy darlings showed their pretty green shoots, and before midsummer they stood up in budded rows, ready to be staked, and about the thirteenth of July the bed burst into splendid bloom.
My English darlings have a lavish habit of scattering themselves about the lawn, in that fashion, and filling in the bare places in the bed.
Elsie said, thinking of her own darlings and how her very heart would be torn with anguish at the sight of one of them in so distressing a condition.
Besides should I grudge him one of the many darlings he has given me?
That hound was dead, but--my darlingswere gone, for ever!
Catching the child to her heart, she kissed her twice, lifted the dead darlings from her apron, and, pushing her gently into the small parlour, closed the door.
The guests were evidently persons of gentle birth and habits, and the Darlings knew how to appreciate such society.
It was often utterly impossible for boats to reach the Farne Islands from the mainland; and no one could say, until the time came, that the Darlings would not be kept from home by stress of weather.
But the wild scream of the sea-fowl, and the thunder of the surf, were such common things to the little Darlings that they took but small notice of them.
At first the meeting seemed too much for him, and he trembled, and he turned pale; but afterward he caressed them most passionately, and loaded the Darlings with presents and thanks.
It will not therefore be out of place to make some reference, not only to the rocky home in which the Darlings lived, but to the historic scenes among which they worked.
But there was always one source of anxiety to trouble the Darlings during December.
For a long time, however, the Darlingsfeared that their efforts would be in vain, but, after much patience and perseverance, he began to revive.
The Darlings shouted a word of cheer, and presently the man roused himself to his task.
The friend who had cared so much for the family as to come to the islands to expostulate with the Darlings on this subject, received the warmest thanks, both of Grace and her father, for his kindness and solicitude.
As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her.
Perhaps some have allowed years to slip carelessly by and their darlings to pass seemingly beyond their control.
The attack had been made from the three exposed sides of the cottage, the cats thrusting their claws between the bars and dragging my darlings up against these.
At bedtime I look in to make sure the fire will keep in until morning, and that my darlings are all right.
At a tender age, I sturdily refused to "call mine" the downiest darlings of the poultry-yard.
The mother, whose eyes were brimming with tears, watched her famished darlings with emotions that can be imagined.
How should she bear to part with his darlingsfor ever, and to know them brought up in the way that was not good, and which their father dreaded, and when their orphanhood made her doubly tender over them?
If my darlings were to be left at all, it should be with you, but I cannot contemplate it.
In the interests of the darlings she would be very energetic, learn to farm, improve the property, and draw the bonds closer than heretofore between mistress and tenants.
Two little darlings alone, Clinging hand in hand; Two little girls come out To see the wonderful land!
And their little mouths go wide open At some of the brilliant sights That little darlings may see in the road Of Edgware on Saturday nights.
And it's O for my two little darlings I never shall see again, Though I stand for the whole night watching And crying here in the rain!
On the tenth of February they embarked, and after stopping the night on board I tore myself from my darlings to return to my desolate lodgings to contemplate my solitary journey, and to go to my husband and home childless.
Of the parting with these her darlings Mary Moffat wrote:--"Though my heart was heaving with anguish I joyfully and thankfully acceded forthwith (i.
I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me.
It is a pleasant picture to see her with my little darlings about her, telling the old sweet story she told me so often, and making God and Heaven and Christ such blissful realities.
Those dear pretty pink and white dimpled darlings done up in "illusion" and silks, how happy it makes one feel only to look at them!
As one who reads of the slaughtered darlings in the days of Herod, as one who pores on chronicles of the cradle plague-smitten, I felt for them; they seemed never to have been born, to me.
Friends, royal darlings of mine ancient age, Welcome, right welcome, in the realm of sound To majesty and honor!
I know their feelings were hurt at our leaving them for the new dolls," said Maggie, rummaging in the baby-house, whither Margery soon followed her to reinstate the old darlings in the place of the departed new ones.
Hark you, Yuri Alexievich, shall we tell the littledarlings in a whisper what an innocent you are?
A voice within warned him against making common cause with those who had robbed the family of which he had become a member, yet he again used the remembrance of his innocent darlings to palliate his purpose.
Yet was he really so base that it would have been a disgrace for his darlings to resemble him?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darlings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
