She reminded him of a mechanical doll, wound up and striking out across the floor.

He finally meets with Rosalba, the mechanical doll, once again.

The girls discover that, rather than people, these are life-size mechanical dolls.

The story is about a man who makes a mechanical doll.

And still she kept walking as though she were a mechanical doll, feet moving, touching the floor without feeling.

The toweled head shook once, like that of a mechanical doll.

All she could do was sit still and feel herself wind down like a teetering mechanical doll.

The girl was like a mechanical doll, spewing her limited vocabulary.

The mechanical doll was suddenly a little less adorable.

They make the other mechanical dolls move and they dance around them.