ma chère

An' w'isper, "Never min', ma chère, won't do no good a-frettin'."

He shook it off lightly, saying, "Pardonnez moi, ma chère; I've no come to trouble you."

You must write, ma chère, if you want to be dans le mouvement nowadays.

Ma chère Adèle, you know not what you do, when you speak slightingly of our Holy Church.

But, ma chère fille, if those horrid balls should hit us, how dreadful!