Which preposition to use with dolls

in Occurrences 48%

Charley boy better be making connections with headquarters or he won't find himself such a hit with the niftiest doll in town, eh?" "Charley, youyou haven't run through those thousands and thousands and thousands the papers said you got from your granny that time?

with Occurrences 44%

Picking feathery grasses, red-tipped daisies, sweet-smelling clover and golden dandelions; feeding snapdragons with fallen petals, finding what's o'clock by blowing dandelion fruits, paying for dock tea out of a fairy purse, shading poppy dolls with woodruff parasols, that is how a child enjoys the beauty of colour, scent and form.

of Occurrences 24%

Why, if I'd have met a girl like you ten years ago, I'd have made you the baby doll of the Pacific Coast.

for Occurrences 11%

She bade Harry Esmond pay her a visit whenever he passed through London, and carried her graciousness so far as to send a purse with twenty guineas for him to the tavern where he and his lord were staying, and with this welcome gift sent also a little doll for Beatrix, who, however, was growing beyond the age of dolls by this time, and was almost as tall as Lady Isabella.

to Occurrences 10%

Babet had caught up little Marie, who was crying and clasping her doll to her.

on Occurrences 8%

She was usually ready to play in any weather; but on this, the hottest day of the year, she stayed indoors, where it was a little cooler, and lying on the settle she drew paper dolls on birch bark, and afterwards cut them out.

at Occurrences 6%

The Noah's arks, dolls, and bricks children will choose their own toys, were used, and I found that the and as far as possible I will put girls who had no dolls at home a child who knows how to use them were delighted to be able to dress next to one who desires to sit and undress them and put them still.

out Occurrences 4%

In what way?' 'I found her making a pinafore for her doll out of a lace flounce of real old Venetian lace.

under Occurrences 4%

The stamp of change was on his noble face, indeed it had been stamped on itself, until it looked like a wax doll under a hot stove.

like Occurrences 3%

"Fancy myself," she thought, "dressing a doll like Lily Putland, or wearing a pinafore like Lucy Tucker!"

by Occurrences 3%

She bade Harry Esmond pay her a visit whenever he passed through London, and carried her graciousness so far as to send a purse with twenty guineas for him to the tavern where he and his lord were staying, and with this welcome gift sent also a little doll for Beatrix, who, however, was growing beyond the age of dolls by this time, and was almost as tall as Lady Isabella.

from Occurrences 3%

Marie had left the baby doll from the other room in the cot, so Dorothy and Sylvia said they must look after the babies.

of Occurrences 2%

The Dolls of yesterday.

than Occurrences 2%

The nations rendered famous by their artists, artisans, and idealists have supplied their infants with many toys, for there is more philosophy and poetry in a single doll than in a thousand books....

en Occurrences 1%

"Now, w'en Chloe tol' ole Mars' Dugal' 'bout dis yer baby doll en dis udder goopher, she had n' ha'dly 'lowed Mars' Dugal' would sell Jeff down Souf.

between Occurrences 1%

Marie alone remained peaceful in the big bed with her doll between her arms, and slumbering with the happy smile of an angel.

beside Occurrences 1%

She never moved at all, but was so vital that the rest of the people seemed dolls beside her.

about Occurrences 1%

" When Mother Slessor went outside to call the children, she found Mary seated on the steps with her stick dolls about her.

behind Occurrences 1%

She cried because her woman said she must leave her old doll behind her; and when my brother declared that she should have anything she liked, she danced about, and kissed him, and made him kiss its wooden face with half the paint rubbed off.

before Occurrences 1%

"Of when I was a child and played dolls before this very fireplace?

as Occurrences 1%

He would as soon think of submitting any project of his to the judgment of a doll as to mine.

within Occurrences 1%

And so, when Laurella could no longer sit up, they brought another cot for her, and she lay all day babbling childish nonsense, and playing dolls within hand-reach of the sick-bed; while Johnnie with Lissy's help, tended on them both.

into Occurrences 1%

If you don't see those three at the altar in Bond Street, in a jiffy, my name's Jack Robinson!" With her expert little ways in sharp action, she had got a doll into whitey-brown paper orders, before the meal was over, and displayed it for the edification of the Jewish mind, and Mr. Riah was lost in admiration for the brave, resolute little soul, who could so put aside her sadness to meet and face her pressing need.

Which preposition to use with  dolls