And the pampered darlings of communism - the writers, the intellectuals, the lionised workers of heavy industry.

I'm the world's pampered darling and I know it.

Kilisha doubted that she'd find any aristocrats who cared to let a scruffy apprentice draw blood from their pampered darlings, though.

He hated these pampered darlings, and it was his particular fate that he must spend so much of his working day in their company.

"When I was a child, she was the pampered darling of many a nobleman at the king's court, but in her younger days, she wasn't quite as discriminating."

Or so it would seem from this irresistible show of some 170 photographs, dating from 1840 to the present, of dogs in many roles, from savage scavengers to pampered darlings.

How could he be falling in love with the beautiful cuckoo in his nest who was exactly the sort of pampered darling a poor doctor ought to avoid?

Incredibly, she'd become mistress of his former home, the pampered darling of his family's wealthy enemy.

Audiences like to believe that the animals enjoy doing their tricks, and that they are treated like pampered darlings, and that they just love their masters to death.

At first she chose to interpret his waning ardor as a lover's teasing: the naughtiness, so to speak, of a pampered darling.