And she begged that Robert would interest himself, and discover, if possible, whether she was entitled to the indulgence accompanying the remarkably curious Mexican prayer-beads. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The lady in black had once received a pair of prayer-beads of curious workmanship from Mexico, with very special indulgence attached to them, but she had never been able to ascertain whether the indulgence extended outside the Mexican border. ❋ Unknown (2000)
And he toyed with a string of dark prayer-beads (except that its cord was of steel and carried no beads at all!) sometimes ❋ Lumley, Brian (1984)
Rosaries and prayer books Rosaries, prayer-beads and on ground prayer books. ❋ Unknown (1967)
With all their dresses made and ready, wreaths, veils, candles, prayer-books, picture-cards, mother-of-pearl prayer-beads, and festival breakfasts with admiring family and friends prepared. ❋ Grace E. King (N/A)
She would drop her crochet, and clutch her prayer-beads from her pocket, and relax the constraint over her lips, which would go to rattling off prayers with the velocity of a relaxed windlass. ❋ Grace E. King (N/A)
You never could have told that those little girls had not been sitting during the whole time, with their hands clasped and eyes cast up to the ceiling, or moving their lips as the prayer-beads glided through their fingers. ❋ Grace E. King (N/A)
His cheek-bones and forehead showed, under some dye, as dark as leather, and as his gaze searchingly raked the crowds, he fingered a string of Moslem prayer-beads. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)
"I remember she had a handsome string of old prayer-beads." ❋ Unknown (1901)
Already she had been to see Jeanne Soubise, in the curiosity-shop, and had bought a string of amber prayer-beads. ❋ Unknown (1901)
She was happy, because she saw her feet already upon the path which would lead through the golden silence to her sister; but there was a drawback to her happiness -- a fly in the amber, as in one of the prayer-beads she had bought of Jeanne Soubise: her secret had to be kept from the man of whom she thought as a very staunch friend. ❋ Unknown (1901)
Soon the only sounds that broke the intense silence were her loudly whispered supplications and the clicking of her prayer-beads, which waked weird echoes in the great galleries and organ loft. ❋ Unknown (1901)
For a long time she sat with closed eyes, her little ivory prayer-beads in her hands. ❋ Unknown (1901)
Kneeling before a plaster cast of the Virgin, with a string of bone prayer-beads in her hands, was another aged woman. ❋ Unknown (1901)
Baptiste, prayer-beads in hand, knelt by his son's side, saying prayers for the dying. ❋ Unknown (1901)
He sidled close to Abdulla, and brushed with a delicate touch the hand that hung down listlessly, holding the prayer-beads. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Willis said quite a lovely thing, about the sakkiyehs: that their chains of great water cups, going up and down, look like enormous strings of red and green prayer-beads, being 'told' by unseen hands. ❋ Unknown (1889)
