| Around 10 per cent of Finland's surface area is made up of lakes such as these, strung like a soggy lace doily over the landscape. |
| However, if the gift is more substantial than a hand tatted doily, the physician will have an ethical problem. |
| She couldn't have been further off beam if she'd turned the answer sheet into a paper doily and sung popular songs through her nose. |
| The bridge resembles an ungainly doily with its spiky pinnacles and lacelike steel crisscrosses. |
| You can have your cake and eat it, and hang on to the doily. |
| The octagon coffee table in the middle of the room was covered with a round doily and a vase of fresh flowers in the center. |
