dearling

dearling

(ˈdɪərlɪŋ)
n, adj
another word for darling
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It is my custom, dearling, and hath been since I have first known thee, to proclaim by herald in such camps, townships, or fortalices as I may chance to visit, that my lady-love, being beyond compare the fairest and sweetest in Christendom, I should deem it great honor and kindly condescension if any cavalier would run three courses against me with sharpened lances, should he chance to have a lady whose claim he was willing to advance.
'The icon shows a woman holding up the sun -- representing power, life, warmth and unity,' explains Dearling. 'It also cues the sun giving life and the warm and toasty caramel flavours of the malt." She adds that the open 'B' represents open-mindedness, while the dynamic geometric shapes indicate women's stability and strength.
In God's bosom we are told "Sapience doth sit, / The soueraine dearling of the Deity, / Clad like a Queene in royall robes" and "all with gemmes and iewels gorgeously / Adornd, that brighter than the starres appeare" (An hymne of heavenly beautie 183-187; Spenser 1959: 598).
Dearling (Ed.), Proceedings of a conference on the biology and management of species and habitats at risk (pp: 549-552).
It supports a robust inward, independent conscience rather than an outward other-directed one (Lewis, 1971; Tangney & Dearling, 2002; Tangney, 2015; Taylor, 1985; Williams, 1993).
Detective Constable Ian Dearling of Sussex Police said; "We would like to talk to anyone who saw this incident, in particular a man we are told filmed what happened on his mobile."
Tunes 2 and 3 (Mr Harwood and Mr Dearling) are both set in scales with minor thirds, and where the sixth note of the scale occurs it is as a major sixth, so the tunes could be described as Dorian.
REGINALD DEARLING * a resident of Hammond, Indiana.
EX-BLUE SEEMED 'NORMAL SELF' AT LAST PARTY KEITH DEARLING threw the surprise party for his wife that Mr Speed and his wife attended the night before his death.
Dearling, who is based at Belgravia police station, Central London, is a member of the rapid response team for Westminster.