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Face and body were shrunken and withered, but his black, bead-like eyes, small and close together, were very bright, withal they were restless and querulous, and more like a monkey's than a man's.

THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

Millet is one of my favorites: The small, round, bead-like yellow grains have a nutty, almost corny flavor and fluffy texture it cooks in 20 to 30 minutes.

The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010

The perfect triad member to rhododendron and azaleas is, indeed, Pieris japonica because it functions as the ideal filler shrub in that it not only mediates subtle colors with its jewel bead-like white flowers but also features reddish leaves.

Archive 2008-04-01 Pooky 2008

The perfect triad member to rhododendron and azaleas is, indeed, Pieris japonica because it functions as the ideal filler shrub in that it not only mediates subtle colors with its jewel bead-like white flowers but also features reddish leaves.

RHODODENDRON COMPANIONS FOR SPRING Pooky 2008

The researchers said that, searching through museum collections, they found bead-like shells with holes in them from sites in Skhul,

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

The swaying fronds of aspiring palms, adorned in due season with masses of straw-coloured inflorescence, to be succeeded by loose bunches of red, bead-like berries, shoot out from the pall of leafage.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

When the bronze orchid lavishly decorates the rocks with its crinkled flowers of dull gold, the entrance has a specific character; and quite another when the glossy leaves of the umbrella-tree form the relief and its long radiating spikes of dull red, bead-like flowers attract the brilliant sun-bird, and big blue and green and red butterflies.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Often they came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

Upon the top of the shelving stood two enormous stuffed birds, moldering and decrepit, regarding the sudden illumination with unblinking, bead-like eyes.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

The lips were thin and brimful of malice; the small black bead-like eyes glittered with the fire of a universal hate.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various