What is "rag dolls"

Usage examples of "rag dolls".

In winter when the rivers were frozen over and the raftsmen were laid off, he sat quietly at home in Troyl, where only raftsmen, longshoremen, and wharf hands lived, and supervised the upbringing of his daughter Agnes, who seemed to take after her father, for when she was not under the bed she was in the clothes cupboard, and when there were visitors, she was under the table with her rag dolls.

Many of the girls were back at work, unhooding their typewriters and storing squalid Kleenex in the bottom drawers of their desks where it would rest with old love letters, rag dolls, and pornographic books their bosses had given them in the spirit of the new liberalism, and also to see if anything would happen.

Long before the earliest rag dolls and golliwogs, human beings had made dolls as portraits of particular children and adults, too.

Their heads ended up on sticks, and their guts were sewn into murderous rag dolls.

She was thin and pale, with nervous hands that fluttered about like dying birds when she wasn't sewing the pretty rag dolls, or clutching the ugly old one she was never without.

Willow could not help but moan as all the tension melted from her body, leaving her as boneless as one of Mary Margaret's rag dolls.

The social worker was a prim-looking strawberry blonde who was carrying two rag dolls with yarn hair, a boy and a pigtail-girl.

But rag dolls don't have pistols fall from their lax hands, and rag dolls don't have crimson blood flowing from holes in their chests and don't leave large bloody smears on walls.

She tucked a tiny blanket around two faded, but meticulously clean, rag dolls.

Renie thought that her room, its walls papered in a faded design of cavorting rag dolls, must have been intended for a child, although the Van Bleecks had never had one.

Even as the cops reached him, they were snatched up and sent flying, rag dolls before the man's rage.

Then the girl went off by herself to the picnic table area, where two rag dolls awaited her atop one of the tables.