Do you have cute little doll figurines on the mantelpiece?

At eight months old, she was the daintiest little doll, with dark, gazing eyes and a striking composure.

You don't have to be a perfect little doll.

Grace was like a little doll.

He has the eyes of a porcelain doll, and a vaguely disengaged expression of faint surprise, the eyebrows permanently lifted, lips not quite smiling.

She reminded me of a porcelain doll: a highly intelligent one, of course, but a doll nonetheless.

She wears a constantly false smile that resembles a feature like a porcelain doll and like glass, her face becomes cracked when damaged, revealing a possibly hollow interior.

I spent a lot of time in my bedroom, organising tea parties for my porcelain dolls, toys and teddies.

Yet they are porcelain dolls, with a refinement just too remote.

He originally mistook it for a toy doll.

He looks like a smiling robot with a toy doll on his arm.

I said — and at that moment she came running down the stairs bouncing around like a toy doll.

There were small ones the size of a common toy doll, or large ones as big or half as big as a real person.

And you see them in the markets, flogging every kind of imported consumer knickknack from tracksuits to toy dolls.

The present took the form of a small wooden doll.

It was a human faced wooden doll.

Female figurines made of clay, found in later tombs, are considered a later development of these sometimes elaborately coiffured wooden dolls.