In olden days, the makers of rosariesand paternosters had their shops in the little street we have just left, as well as the booksellers.
During the latter part of the Middle Ages it appears to have been a common practice for ladies to wear rosaries or chaplets of beads upon their wrists as bracelets.
Look how they pray before the hearth, how eagerly they place their rosaries and medals in the little bowl which legend relates was found in the Holy House after its miraculous journey.
They pressed their lips to the glass, and held up their rosaries and rings to touch the shrine.
They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!
There was an hour or more of expectation, during which rosaries slipped through the fingers of many a veiled nun, and the soft murmur of prayer came from strong men as well as from pale-faced women.
They wore rosaries and crucifixes in profusion, and their habit was spangled with all manner of charms and amulets, especially the tinsel medals with their favorite device of St. James riding down the Moors.
The well is shadowed by a tall hawthorn bush, and this bush is hung thick with cheap rosaries and rags and hairpins and bits of string and other tokens placed there by the true believers who had tested the wonderful properties of the water.
The hour was nearly noon, and the space was deserted, except for an old woman sitting at the great western doorway with a basket of rosaries made of nuts and of snail shells, and a workman or two employed on the bishop's new reredos.
Hid away here among the image's best clothes were more of the gold votive offerings it had received: one a head cut out of solid gold; several rosaries of carved beads, silver and gold.
He carried his wares in a small tray, hung, like a muff, by a cord round his neck, the rosaries and some strips of bright stuffs hanging down at each side and swinging back and forth in time to his slow tread.
What a contrast of youth and age, between these fair young creatures so richly clad, so fresh and full of life, and the faded, hopeless vender of rosaries resting her weary limbs on the flinty portal!
In China and Japan Buddhist rosariesare often arranged in two rings.
Northern Buddhist worshippers hold their rosaries (like Roman Catholics) in the right hand, and move on the beads with the left, and they will do this while talking together or even quarrelling.
The friar was not so calm; his whole face glowed like a furnace, and his eyes twinkled and flashed at sight of the rosaries and crosses.
There was a man there selling rosaries and photographs who spoke scarcely any Italian or French, but did speak Spanish.
In three weeks he has sold a hundred and fifty kilos of rosaries blessed by the Pope, two hundred kilos of medals, and about half a square kilometre of scapulars.
She brought me some rosaries and wished to pray in my chapel.
Old women bowed with age would rub rosaries between their palms, muttering prayers, and saying: “Our great Buddha will take care of you!
Rolling and tumbling, theserosaries of boats would whistle their way to the shore.
One maker told us she sent annually into Brittany alone rosariesto the value of 800l.
They held their rosaries in their hands, which rested folded upon their breasts.
Of these seeds the Indian women make rosaries to adorn their necks with: the savages formerly knew no other use of the vaynilla, which however birds and apes eagerly devour.
Of these large knots the Guaranies turn rosaries and images of the saints very neatly.
All that he received he gave to the poor, even to clothes from his back, and his sequestrated property consisted solely of pious books, rosaries and objects of devotion.
In 1788, Antonio López was prosecuted in Valencia for selling rosaries with bones made of clay as relics.
It was found that in many nunneries in Rome, whose confessors had adopted his views, the inmates had cast aside their rosaries and chaplets and depended wholly on contemplation.
My wife availed herself of the concert tickets; the rosaries were put into a drawer, and I threw the pebbles into the garden.
There were tickets for sacred concerts, lotteries for the benefit of the little Chinese, rosaries blessed by the pope, pebbles from Jerusalem.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rosaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
