The people brought me dolls and picture-books, and whoever would sit by my bed was obliged to tell me something.
Our sex, they said, was treated unjustly: every sort of higher education men insisted on retaining for themselves; they admitted us to no science, they required us either to be dollsor family drudges.
Oh, Susan, I don't think I can bear to hear aboutdolls to-night.
I have some pretty dolls I would like to write about, but I am afraid if my letter is too long it will be thrown away.
Norah went home happy in the possession of five dolls out of Ethel's twenty-three, and her good fortune did not stop there.
Ma hasn't played withdolls for quite a spell," agreed Zeke, with a smile that was sunshine to the child.
Anna Belle can have some little china dolls to go in wading in it.
The girls would join David in the office, generally bringing their dolls with them, when David would be the one to tell or read a story, for his aunt kept him well supplied with interesting tales.
So Polly put back all but two dolls and a few small packages, and started upstairs humming softly a gay little air.
Cornelius or Moses would no doubt enjoy a game of ball better than the prettiest doll that ever was made; but you and Leonora and Corinne, for instance, would be unusual little girls if you did n't like dolls best.
Little by little, as her skirts had been lengthened, as her dolls had been put away, as her hair had been put up, she had seen her womanhood drawing near.
Every time that she would get herself nicely settled with her dolls she would be forced to move again; until there was in the whole, busy, bustling place no corner at all where she was not in somebody's way.
But the little mamma did not come; so Finnette concluded to put the dolls to bed herself.
Winny always put her dolls to bed at five o'clock.
There were the dolls fast asleep, and their clothes all piled on a chair; and there sat Finnette watching them.
When Winny got her dolls in bed, she always sang them to sleep, and then Finnette would sing too.
She had not been able to eat or to sleep with the care of all those dolls on her mind.
Finnette always helped Winny to put her dolls to bed.
She tumbled the four small dollsinto their beds anyhow.
Don't you know those beautiful card dolls you have in your drawer at home--didn't Aunt Emma make them?
Nobody else could find out such nice plays, or tell them such wonderful stories, or dressdolls half so well.
Suppose you leave Milly's dolls alone for the future; but cheer up, Milly!
Eric wanted her to go swimming in the stream, but he teased her to in vain, for she was entranced with the dolls and would hardly lift her eyes from them.
Yes, even fairy children love paperdolls and Ivra loved them more than most.
I suppose I'm too old to play with dolls now; but I--I can't give her up.
Did you ever think why girls like to play withdolls and boys do not?
Our tea-sets were bits of dishes That mother had thrown away, With chincapin saucers and acorn-cups; And our dolls slept on moss and hay.
If Polly and Rachel, Who played in old times with me, In the corner down by the smoke-house, These wonderful dolls could see!
Persia sends beautiful toys, from which can be inferred a national taste for music, since most of their dolls are blowing instruments.
Japanese toys much brighter, the dolls relieved in gold and gaudy colors, absolutely saucy.
Chinese dolls are sober in color, meek in demeanor, and comprehensive in mien.
Do they make none, under the impression, correct in a low state of culture, that dolls for children become idols for men?
The dolls and the picture-book, even the hat, were all for somebody's little friend, never for me.
She had them dolls yisterday," Norah cried, accusingly, her finger pointed straight at the kitchen door.
I talked of it to Lily-Ann, and described the enchanting veil at great length; and I even condescended to tell the twins about the dolls that mother had.
These dolls are only for good girls," he said again, in a loud voice that had a muffled sound.
The dolls went quickly after that, all except the queen.
It was no longer a question of dolls or books or even hats.
Then I came down again, perfectly satisfied, for the dolls were still there, and if I escaped marriage they were to be my own.
He seemed to be a very kindly sort of person who gave away dolls by the hundred, sometimes to orphans, and sometimes just to little girls who needed them.
Society does little else than to teach its girls to be dolls and drudges.
Footnote 152: In dolls of the Corn-maids this germinative symbol is often found made of wood and mounted on an elaborate tablet representing rain-clouds.
Among the numerous deities of the modern Hopi Olympus there is one called Kokopeli,[131] often represented in wooden dolls and clay images.
The same symbol is found in images used as dolls of Calako-mana, the equivalent, as the others, of the same Corn-maid.
This way of representing feathers is not without modern survival, for it may still be seen in many dolls of mystic personages who are reputed to have worn feathered garments.
Footnote 142: One of the best of these is that of the Humis-katcina, but good examples occur on the dolls of the Calakomanas.
From the obscurity of the symbolism, these dolls are never figured in works on Tusayan images.
Her favorite dolls were the figures cut out of the fashion plates of Godey's Lady's Book.
Sometimes Polly, who seemed born to make trouble, would roll her eyes at thedolls and say, "You iz de greedes' things.
I believe she thought her dolls looked cosier at the dinner-table than anywhere else, and she kept them sitting there a great deal.
There were dollswith blue eyes, and dolls with brown eyes, and dolls that could talk, and dolls that could walk, all waiting there for Christmas Eve.
Now, for a long time Moggy had slept on Bertha's pillow, and though Bertha had other dollswho were much prettier than Moggy she never took them to bed with her.
But when she saw Mr. Western enter the drawing-room with the five dolls in his arms Mrs. Western laughed, and he threw them all into an arm-chair by the fireplace.
You have put the dolls away somewhere and forgotten where.
And now Mr. Western knew how the dolls had disappeared.
There is another connection of dolls with costume rather than of costume with dolls which we may mention at this point.
The only dolls that are to be found in Malta represent ancient saints, and it is said that they are dressed as such.
In the fourteenth century, when there were no fashion plates, and written descriptions would hardly do their duty effectively, model costumes were put upon dolls and sent from country to country.
Not cheese, Mother; dollsand children don't eat cheese; I know that!
I'll have a dolls' party, and cook cunning things in tiny little dishes just big enough fordolls to eat.
Suppose you have a really nice luncheon for both the dolls and the girls," she said.
Everything it seemed that fingers could make, useful or ornamental, from handsomely dressed dolls to pincushions, from white aprons with lace and ribbon bows on the dainty pockets down to unromantic holders.
Hanny was divided in her affection between the Deans' dolls and Nora's cat.
There was quite an array when five little girls had their best dolls out.
The little girls brought their dolls to show Daisy, their very best ones, and Nora dressed up Pussy Gray in the long white baby dress, and pussy was very obliging and lay in Daisy's arms just like a real baby.
With the fifteen dolls that you have brought I am going to have a real Pardon, and townspeople and fisher people to stand and worship at the altar of the Virgin, there in the corner.
We were climbing the moor now, at a lopping gallop that set the packet of dolls bob-bobbing on my back to a sort of tune.
Now all this time I carried my parcel of little dolls in a satchel slung at my shoulder, and was wondering to whom I ought to deliver it.
Our dollsdo them when we've time; we are always marrying our dolls in the city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dolls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
