Thus, in "Bible Lesson," just after a supercilious sherry-sipper has said -- about some boys with knives in a nearby vacant lot -- A necessary evil, my dear child," and then expressed "reverence" for her birds, which warble in a gold cage, the poet comments, "May she roast in a trash fire / The homeless warm their hands over".
"She came to me, just a dear little child with the most beautiful brown eyes," she said, her voice quavering.
How I wish we could stay, but this dear child is on the verge of throwing a fit.
(Napoleon gave Masséna the nickname "l'Enfant chéri de la Victoire" ["the Dear Child of Victory"].) Although he was made a marshal in 1804, Masséna had little respect for Napoleon's imperial regime.
On Rochereau's desk is a vial on which, in keeping with tradition, a label records that it contains "the soil of Flanders on which our dear child fell and which has kept his remains for four years".
My dear child, it's hard".
Caroline, dear child, take your embroidery.
Then she lowers her voice: " 'No — my dear child.
And he said, 'not, my dear child, for the reason you obviously think.
Then the lady understood, but she took one look at Pippi and burst out, 'But, my dear child, your whole face is covered with freckles!' 'I know that,' said Pippi, 'but I don't suffer from them.
