beads

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noun string of small, often round, objects

noun. precious stones, metals worn as decoration

noun. chain

1570s, "to adorn with beads," from bead (n.). Meaning "to string like beads" is from 1883. Related: Beaded; beading.

The perspiration stood in beads on the boy's sallow forehead; but he said nothing.

Magua is a red-skin; he wants not the beads of the pale faces.

I bathe my face and tell my beads with my whole soul, and that is all.

There were some quite white, and others all black, according to the colour of the beads.

For hours the beads of his Rosary would glide between his fingers.

Beads of perspiration covered her face, and her hands were burning.

One wicked baby sits by herself and strings her beads on her curls.

The night was cold, but the sweat stood on his brow in beads.

I awoke from that dream with beads of perspiration on my forehead.

The perspiration was standing in beads on every inch of Robbie's body.