String of beads used in various religious traditions.
A string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics)
1Some of them are selling prayer beads and white Muslim prayer caps.
2But now we are free, said Djikke, fingering his prayer beads.
3He won't talk to a journalist, he says, and sits clutching prayer beads.
4I glimpsed the string of amber prayer beads at his throat.
5That includes prayer beads and zamzam water, pumped from a holy well in Mecca.
6Guarded by paramilitary police, some clutched prayer beads as they were loaded onto buses.
7In his right hand is what appears to be a set of red prayer beads.
8You will also find a necklace of prayer beads.
9Mrs. Nishimura entered the parlor just as Mrs. Asaki was putting away her prayer beads.
10I swear, sometimes it sounds like the pious fiddling with their prayer beads in here.
11The elder shrugged and flipped his prayer beads.
12Inside one, a man sways gently in his chair, chanting to himself while fingering prayer beads.
13And then I'd imagine the Taliban guys in their trenches, fiddling with their prayer beads, looking up, waiting.
14The priest's back was to me, but he wore a string of amber prayer beads around his neck.
15And I will keep going, he said, twirling prayer beads as a relative comforted him later in a hallway.
16She pointed at strands of prayer beads originally from Tibet, China, Sierra Leone, Peru, Byzantium, Viking Denmark, and Palestine.
Translations for prayer beads