They were marketed as unbreakable, compared to earlier more fragile dolls.

The fragile doll lay helpless in his hands.

Trader stopped, still holding the fragile doll with the greatest of care.

Mariel lay cold and still on the ground, like a fragile pretty doll flung aside and broken, Thorne's dear love stricken for spite by the Spoiler.

One night to feel like a woman, not a fragile doll, but a real red-blooded woman desired by a real red-blooded man.

She looked like a fragile doll between his big hands, and she shrieked in terror as he swung her up to shoulder height, then grabbed at his curly red beard and clung for dear life.

Dolls created entirely of different sizes and shapes of shells, for example, come from a number of French and English resort towns; a number of these fragile dolls may be seen in the Hat and Fragrance.