doll's-house

The heavy-handed setup of Tiny Alice, with the stage dominated by a large doll's-house model of the house in which most of the action takes place, is an analogue of Plato's cave.

These Illusions Are Real O'Toole, Fintan 2004

The doll's-house temple became enormous, its smallness an effect of distance and her inability to put it into perspective, then shifted again; looming and dwindling as her mind fought to make sense of its surroundings.

The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

"Let us talk outside … in English," says he, collaring the bottle, and we strolled out into the warm sunshine, Jen-kan blinking contentedly at his miniature garden — you know the kind of thing, from Chinese exhibitions: dwarf trees and flowers set among tiny streams and lakes and waterfalls, with doll's-house pagodas and bridges all to scale, like Lilliput.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

"Let us talk outside ... in English," says he, collaring the bottle, and we strolled out into the warm sunshine, Jen-kan blinking contentedly at his miniature garden - you know the kind of thing, from Chinese exhibitions: dwarf trees and flowers set among tiny streams and lakes and waterfalls, with doll's-house pagodas and bridges all to scale, like Lilliput.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

The doll's-house became a mad house, and the girls frail birds flying in a wind of chaos.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

This doll's-house garden was a magic land, a forest of flowers through which roamed creatures I had never seen before.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Oh no, I mean a real tiny feast all to yourselves, with the nursery-chair unscrewed to make table and chair, with square paper plates twisted at the corners, paper dishes with sugar on one, currants on another, rice or raisins on another, and little doll's-house cups for the make-believe wine and the real milk.

My Young Days Anonymous

And all the while I was thinking of the new doll's-house that grandmamma would give me perhaps.

My Young Days Anonymous

Marjorie, coloring for no reason whatsoever, stepped down the toy stairs that wound like a doll's-house staircase, and went to the door.

I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

But it is a man's luxuries that give the clue to his character, and it was the very fact that the paper was always of the nature of a _jeu d'esprit_, a glorious game, a kind of Fleet Street doll's-house affair, that gave a sense of gay adventure to the pursuit of politics.

The School and the World Victor Gollancz 1930