The Italian ambassador, Count di Rosini, was trying to interpret a French bon mot into English for the benefit of the dainty, doll-like wife of the Chinese ministerwho was educated at Radcliffewhen a servant leaned over him and laid a sealed envelope beside his plate.

It has been said of him, as it has of Thackeray, that he could not draw a "good woman" and that Agnes Copperfield, like Amelia Sedley, is a very doll-like type of person.

She did everything he did, even taking mustard, and was very brave at quelling the tears that rose to the doll-like blue eyes.

Among the most influential and happy of her class was Miss Prissy Diamond,a little, dapper, doll-like body, quick in her motions and nimble in her tongue,

The figures have a wooden doll-like stiffness, parodying by their evident jerkiness the exquisite emotions intended by the poet and we can only assume that impressed by the imperial example minor rulers or nobles encouraged struggling practitioners but in an atmosphere far removed from that of the great emperor.

Burton (C.S., 128) admired the pretty doll-like faces of the Sioux girls, but only up to the age of six.

At the edge, however, he stoppedthe brink of a precipice, to him!and Spinrobin then became aware that from his moving lips, doll-like though bearded, his voice was issuing with an ever-growing volume of sound and power.

Even the hideous little doll-like heads induced but a passing shudder.

She appeared to have no eyebrows at allowing, no doubt, to the light colour of the hairand the doll-like character was emphasized by her eyes, which were either brown or dark grey, I could not see which.

The Jews' Market is a series of covered arcades with a square in the middle of it, and in the middle of the square a little church with some doll-like trees.

I watched the little doll-like men circling placidly round and round the rink.

The doll-like skaters seemed to spin for a moment and then freeze; one figure began to run across the ice.

The fourth child, the pet of everybody, was a beautiful, doll-like baby girl of three, whose name was Helen.