beads

“Hush—here is our man!” The clerk seized his pen, and Peppino his beads; one was writing and the other praying when the door opened.

In the midst of this growing and important stress the broker became suddenly aware of a high-rolled fringe of golden hair under a nodding canopy of velvet and ostrich tips, an imitation sealskin sacque and a string of beads as large as hickory nuts, ending near the floor with a silver heart.

Can I have some of those pearl beads off the old pincushion in the garret to make myself a ring?

The long-drawn wail of two old boughs rubbing against each other brought out the perspiration in beads on her forehead.