bead-roll

Now does my good Lord run over his bead-roll of proverbs; of black oxen, wild oats, long lanes, and so forth.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Nothing in the bead-roll, or devotional offering of the morning, had he overlooked; the divers dishes that followed had been scrupulously partaken of, and then only -- as a man not to be hurried from the altar or the table -- had he emerged from his tent.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

The grand bead-roll of the virtues of the Flower of Kings contains the principles that guided his life; he used to read with exquisite appreciation these lines: --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

A simple bead-roll is enough; it represents their family likeness and family monotony.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

There is a long and illustrious bead-roll of authors from Bernardino de Laredo to Saint

Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

There is a long and illustrious bead-roll of authors from Bernardino de Laredo to Saint Theresa to prove the contrary.

Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

When Mrs. Noxon announced her charity circus people wondered if even she would dare include Mrs. Cheever on her bead-roll.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

On the bead-roll of those who have had both the ability and the courage to take a stand for our music, the name of Frank van der

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

This catalogue was also known as the "bead-roll" and the prayers as "bidding the beads".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

All these make a fairly good bead-roll of love-affairs for a busy, ugly, and half-savage man.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903