One staying in a little house

Usage examples of doll.

Cushions and bedclothes were scattered everywhere, colourful animatic dolls waddled around, either laughing or repeating their catch phrases.

They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls, historically costumed dolls.

In Japan I had seen a style of puppet theater called Bunraku, where the puppeteers stand right onstage, moving these elegant dolls around without the slightest pretense of invisibility.

In this part of it, long rows of dolls sat on their frilly bottoms, with chubbily outstretched arms, between walls of dusty turquoise.

The diplomats go home, and they can pack up their codes with their dolls and take them home.

Once across Blanchard, Cutty headed into the diner and dropped into a booth like a rag doll suddenly stuffed with lead shot.

Pauline called one night to say she and Daniel were going to see Mark Morris, how about a double dater On the night of the performance, Mattie got all dolled up in her fanciest vintage dress.

Pentle holds out a digicam and thumbs through the images of the ladies and the three children, all of them staring out from the screen like little smeared dolls.

In the end, though, what Montesino had not foreseen was that her failure to charge Doil with at least one other double murder out of a presumed total of twelve 50 Arthur Halley serial killings would create a post-trial impression especially among anti-capital-punishment crusaders that some doubt existed overall, even extending to the one case where Doll was found guilty and sentenced to death.

It all seemed to go quite well, and besides I can be human again, sometimes, and play with my little memories of Blaze and Sphere and Durancy, push them around like dolls.

Lying among the shoes were effigies of Daniel and Charles miniature dolls of the magicians.

Her mind seemed to fall about inside like one of those equilibrist dolls which you push one way and it keeps swinging back at you.

Though finding, as we do, that the little boy enjoys playing with his dolls as his sister does, we refrain from buying dolls for him, and may indeed, underestimating the importance of human fatherhood, declare that dolls are beneath the dignity of a boy though good enough for his sister.

Eyes wide with anticipation, the child tore off the wrappings to uncover a doll dressed in a floaty sari of sparkling green gauze.

Patrol Sergeant Eaton Freedman looked up miserably from a desk that looked like doll furniture with him sitting at it.