He pulled it open, revealing a grouping of dark, beadlike bits of metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistborn] Reference

Loup de mer is a perfect piece of fish bedded on beadlike Sardinian pasta swollen with hints of saffron, tomato and vinegar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Sietsema on enhanced Palena: Dining Room shines, enlarged Cafe loses a pinch of luster] Reference

Janice tried to smile at this; but the woman's beadlike eyes seemed to be boring with their glance right through the girl and this made her extremely uncomfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

He was as still, as grotesque, as evil-looking as the tortured idols of the Chinese; like theirs his eyes were beadlike, expressionless, dull; such are the eyes of dead seal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

A French rule for testing the thickness of frying batter is to dip a spoon in it and then let a drop run off the end on a plate; if it drops freely, yet keeps a beadlike form, it is right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Cookery] Reference

With the needles which they grasped as swords all wet and warm with blood, and their beadlike eyes flashing in the light of the lantern, the Liliputian assassins swarmed up the cages in two separate bodies, until they reached the wickets of the habitations in which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference

He stroked the turkey with a gentle hand, and, Job, resenting the indignity, withdrew his head from the sheltering wing and pecked at the brown fingers, turning around with a stately movement and facing the light once more with a sleepy blink of his bright, beadlike eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration] Reference

The beadlike eye rose to his and sharpened intelligently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason] Reference

Her beadlike eyes glistened with a moist terror -- but she fought!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slan]

Holt lowered his voice and narrowed slyly his little beadlike eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North] Reference

His eyes were bright, almost beadlike; his fingers long and a trifle over-manicured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Ruff and the Double Four] Reference

He tore the beadlike eye away from those two beautiful, glowing golden things, and Ste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason] Reference

The beadlike eyes of the bandit took in shrewdly the competence of this quiet, brown-faced man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Yeager] Reference

For all he knew the beadlike eyes of four or five sharpshooters might be peering at him from the jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Edge] Reference

The king of the Incas was standing within the doorway, surveying the lovers with beadlike, sparkling eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Andes] Reference

A strange and terrible suspicion broke upon Catiline, and the sweat started in beadlike drops from his sallow brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)] Reference

"Oh, they are very beautiful!" exclaimed Rosie, watching the appearance of the beadlike tubercles of which the captain had just spoken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie at the World's Fair] Reference

The site even says, "The animals are made from cowhide and deerskin, and filled with various combinations of fiberfil and beadlike materials.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NOTCOT] Reference

Marie withdrew from his pocket one of the hundred-franc notes, and the single, beadlike eye of the ancient gnome fixed upon it and seemed to shiver with a fascinated delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason] Reference

His vicious old head was covered with gray and wrinkled scales, and his black, beadlike eyes snapped when he opened his mouth to find out whether his fangs were both in working order.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference

The man bowed; then, fixing on him a pair of beadlike brown eyes, which reminded Godwin of some he had seen, he knew not when or where, answered in the humble voice affected by his class.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brethren] Reference

Eliakim took it, and his small, beadlike eyes sparkled avariciously as he recognized the diamond, for his experience was such that he could form a tolerably correct estimate of its value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul the Peddler; or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant] Reference

Clay, the pawnbroker, a little man with a deeply wrinkled face and shrewd, beadlike, black eyes, was darting in and out amongst his friends, laughing loudly, cracking jokes, and making himself generally facetious and agreeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Luck] Reference

With the needles which they grasped as swords all wet and warm with blood, and their beadlike eyes flashing in the light of the lantern, the Liliputian assassins swarmed up the cages in two separate bodies, until they reached the wickets of the habitations in which the Minos abode.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wondersmith] Reference

The cross-pieces, we observed from the very beginning, were invariably covered by little sparkling drops of something wet and beadlike, which at first in our ignorance we took for dew; for until I began systematically observing Lucy and Eliza, I will frankly confess I had never paid any particular attention to the spider-kind with the solitary exception of my old winter friends, the trap-door spiders of the Mediterranean shores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science in Arcady] Reference

(mingled with odd beadlike vessels in some cases) are present in many orchids.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

I feel for you and the doctor, "said Mrs. Simpkins, in a tone far from sympathetic, fixing her beadlike eyes on the housekeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walter Sherwood's Probation] Reference

Marie with his sharp and beadlike eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason] Reference