At this accusation, so terrible in those days, the monk raised the rosary of large beads dangling from his girdle, kissed the cross, and stood surveying the accuser with pity.
And without ado, he too knelt where he stood, beads in hand, eyes fixed upon the one point of devotional interest.
The jewelry I made myself, from wooden beads painted the right colour and in the rue de Rivoli I found just the right Egyptian charms and figures of blue earthenware to hang on the necklace.
The dress seemed to lack something when on, so I twisted ropes of turquoise beads round the wrists and the blue accented the whole.
Then ensued a dyeing of silks and a printing of chiffons, a stringing of beads and knotting of fringes which set the whole establishment humming like a beehive.
From a pocket of her blouse she drew forth a few blue beads that yet remained.
A string of beads adorned the thin throat, and the rest of her array was after the same order of elegance.
No ornaments or ribbons broke the whiteness of her garb--nothing but the Indian belt of beads that Overton had given her, and in it were reddish tints and golden brown the color of her hair.
I'll bet the rest of the blue beads he didn't call it good luck," she returned, looking at him keenly.
I asked her to come nearer, which she did, when assured by the chief it was all right, and I put her present of beads round her neck.
James was counting the beads to pay for them he was struck with a club, and afterwards speared, but not quite disabled, as he drew his revolver and shot the man who attacked him.
I carried a satchel, which had beads and hoop-iron in it; they tried to get it.
My beads were all done up in small parcels, so I could throw them about easily.
I gave the children presents of beads this morning, and some of the old gentlemen objected, saying they ought to have had them; but I did not understand them.
Presents of beads were handed to little children in arms, but indignantly returned.
I held up beads and red cloth, but, strange to say, they seemed to have no effect on that curious crowd.
I threw the poor old dame a packet of beads for herself and another for the child.
The beads I gave to the women, the men saying they ought to have had them too.
I gave my beads indiscriminately, and soon there was a quarrel between the old ladies and young ones.
The husband fell back on his chair, and with the cold sweat standing out in beads on his temples, murmured: "What shall I say to my chief to-morrow?
As you see, there are bits of jewellery and a lot of beads and such odds and ends.
Alma threw in her string ofbeads and then her hat and then her slippers and then a book she had with her, and then something else, Mary couldn't see what that was.
Spread on a table before them lay a conglomerate collection of small objects, among which I recognized a lot of beadsthat I had seen Alma wear, a pretty finger ring and several other odd bits of jewellery.
Then up on that wagon stepped a big Indian with moccasins on his feet, and a dress of deerskin with beads embroidered on it, and a headdress of many feathers and many colors too.
Choo Choo Choo's servant hauled in the kite and the twine, and one by one the soldiers strung all those pennies, those pennies with holes in them, on the twine, like beads on a string.
There were great beadsof perspiration on his forehead, and his broad chest set his breath whistling through contracted nostrils.
The spasm loosed beads of perspiration which stood cold on his forehead.
He was willing to pay down the sum of twenty talents of silver, one hundred talents of copper, two hundred and fifty talents of iron, along with chains and beads of gold and much other treasure, if he were simply let alone.
However, the fellah, quite overcome by this double attack, methodically proceeds to first seize a string of beads for closer examination.
Elsewhere it is a question of bartering a pair of sandals or a row of enamelled beads for some perfume.
In vain Lewis offered everything he had, nothing would purchase the treasured cloak but the belt of blue beads worn by Sacajawea.
For beads he would sacrifice his only garment and his last morsel of food.
And every canoe was laden with salmon, going down river to trade for beads and wapato.
Clark offered a watch, a handkerchief, an American dollar, and a bunch of red beads for a single skin.
The Chinese have, within the last few years, succeeded in cutting coral beads of much smaller dimension than has hitherto been effected by any European artist.
Beads of large size are worth about forty shillings an ounce, whilst small ones do not sell for more than four shillings.
It can been seen that the larger brilliant bodies each enclose seven ultimate atoms, while the beads each enclose two.
On the meta level the snakes break into ten fragments, each consisting of a disk, with sixbeads on one side and five on the other, remaining as lively as the original snake.
Each bright spot with its elevenbeads is enclosed in a wall, accidentally omitted in the diagram.
What were her pearl beads compared to the diamonds of the big, handsome lady near her?
For Anne the days slipped by like golden beads on the necklace of the year.
The long-drawn wail of two old boughs rubbing against each other brought out the perspiration in beads on her forehead.
Can I have some of those pearl beads off the old pincushion in the garret to make myself a ring?
Here the operations are performed in the following manner: 2 x 6 units necessitate the bringing forward of the ten beads on the first wire.
Indeed, little by little the child ceases counting the beads and recognizes the numbers by their color: the dark blue he knows is 9, the yellow 4, etc.
On the second board there are six red beads distributed in rows of four, giving a quotient of one with a remainder of two.
This material consists of beads strung on wires: i.
Back of each box is one of the racks with ten tubes filled with beads of corresponding colors.
This consists in taking one by one the beads from the board to the left--in this case the white--and exchanging them for ten red beads, which in turn are placed in rows of four on the other board until the quotients on the two cards are alike.
For the second number we place 4 beads for the hundreds and then we begin to place the 8 tens.
Everything is ready on the printed sheet; the child has only to write the results which he obtains by adding the beads in columns of three each.
So they are slid back and one bead on the second wire is brought forward, to represent the ten replaced, and on the first wire two beads are brought forward (12).
The beads are opalescent; and the white metal wire on which they are strung is bent at each end, holding the beads rigid and preventing them from slipping.
These ten hundred-beads are equal to one of the thousand-beads.
Sew the two round black beads on the head for eyes; make the beak of writing paper after Figs.
Opposite us I saw the artillery captain take a rosary out of his pocket and tell the beads with dreamy eyes; and when the Chaplain came to the sentence "Holy Mary, Mother of God, .
It's his rosary," I said, and my mind saw in a vivid picture a barefooted boy going over the hills of Corrymeela to morning Mass, with his beads in his hand.
Only when he was well out of range and had leveled off did he let the clamped air out of his lungs and shake the cold beads of sweat from his forehead.
That realization filled him with great joy, but it also made him gulp, and caused beads of cold sweat to break out on his forehead.
Colonel Welsh paused for breath and to take out his handkerchief and wipe imaginary beads of sweat from his forehead.
She hated black, too, and grimaced at her sombre frills, which the mourning brooch and chain of jet beads could only embellish, never lighten.
Big jet earrings dangled from her ears, being matched by the double chain of beads that hung over her crape-frilled bodice.
When glass eyes are not at hand, black beads may be used.
Or white glass beads may have a pupil (black) surrounded by the iris (yellow or brown) painted with oil colors on the back.
A shout of laughter followed, for four large gray rats appeared, rather shaky as to their legs, and queer as to their tails, but quite fine about the head, where black beads shone in the most lifelike manner.
The ring is about three inches in diameter, on the inner circumference of which are fastened sixbeads of different colors, at equal distances, to each of which a separate value is attached.
But it generally happens from the dexterity of the players that the ring covers both spears and each counts according to the color of the beads above his spear.
Oftentimes in addition to this, all of his own possessions and the property of his friends and neighbors in the form of skins and beads were staked upon the result of the contest.
The beads must be of plain common glass; but the brighter they are the better.
There was a little touch of infinite pathos even in this hideous moment, for by the side of an empty glass I saw a string of beads with a little metal crucifix.
Mendoza Morse leant back in his chair with the perspiration glittering in little beadsupon his face, but he wore an aspect of relief.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
