...or profession. At his belt hung a long open work iron pencase and a wooden rosary such as holy men wear. On his head was a gigantic sort of tam o’ sha... ...ia that I have ever seen.’ ‘A priest, perhaps,’ said Chota Lal, spying the rosary. ‘See! He goes into the Wonder House!’ ‘Nay, nay,’ said the policema... ... laughed Kim. ‘Alas! I am an old man. I did not know.’ Then, fingering his rosary, he half turned to the Museum. ‘What is your caste? Where is your ho... ...hen the lama took snuff from a portentous wooden snuff gourd, fingered his rosary awhile, and so dropped into the easy sleep of age, as the shadow of ... ...y God?’ said the money lender at last. ‘Hear!’ said the lama, shifting the rosary to his hand. ‘Hear: for I speak of Him now! O people of Hind, listen... ...’Om mane pudme hum! Om mane pudme hum!’– and the thick click of the wooden rosary beads. ‘It irks me,’ he said at last. ‘The speed and the clatter irk... ... sailed across the dark. The children of the house tugged unrebuked at his rosary; and he clean forgot the Rule which forbids looking at women as he t... ..., camel like strides. He was deep in meditation, mechanically clicking his rosary. They followed the rutted and worn country road that wound across th... ...lama had waked too, but, taking no direct notice of the child, clicked his rosary. ‘What is that?’ said the child, stopping a yell midway. ‘I have nev...

...is always something made to our hand, if it were only our fingers. But there was something worse than foolishness placarded in Creil Church. The Assoc... ...rief of Pope Gregory Six- teenth, on the 17th of January 1832: according to a coloured bas-relief, it seems to have been founded, sometime other, by t... ... of the band. Indulgences, plenary and partial, follow on the performance of the duties of the Association. ‘The partial indulgences are attached to t... ...- mities some higher and more religious spirit than I dream. I wonder if other people would make the same allow- ances for me! Like the ladies of Crei...

...t do I say? God! God!—God pity me! Am I gone mad That I should spit upon a rosary? Am I become so shrunken? Would to God I too might feel that frenzie...

...f religion. If the young lawyer amused himself with fingering the handsome rosary that she kept in a little green velvet bag, if he laughed as he look... ...sually is attached to this means of grace, Angelique would gently take the rosary out of his hands and replace it in the bag without a word, putting i...

...too curious for you to take home and lose. It is what they call a T urkish rosary; they say it is made of rose-leaves reduced to a paste and squeezed ...

...of the vessel. The poor Abbe seemed dazed, and kept dreamily fingering his rosary, and murmuring to himself. The other three consulted in a low voice.... ...u lie still and sleep. My uncle,’ as he roamed round her, mourning for his rosary, ‘I am afraid your beads are lost; 62 A Modern Telemachus but see h... ...r all the fe- male population who had not repaired to the coast. Her first rosary was torn from her to adorn an almost naked baby; but the Abbe began ... ...little cross of sticks that she had been forming to com- plete her uncle’s rosary. Her gesture was understood. A man better clad than the rest, with a...

...ut ten a dead man was carried in, lashed under a pole like a dead pig, his rosary (for he was a Catholic) hanging nearly to the ground. Next came a yo... ...ary chief’s dress of white kilt, shirt, and jacket, and with a conspicuous rosary about his neck. Tall but not heavy, with eager eyes and a marked ap-...

...nwood. At the further end, quite in darkness, the Knight, bare-headed, and rosary in hand, knelt before the dark-robed figure of a confessor, while at... ...n returned again to the consciousness of his condition, clasped either the rosary or the crucifix, and turned his soul to fervent prayer; then, again,...

...o say his prayers con- stantly, never leaving out one, as the beads of his rosary re- minded him of their order. As to her own grandson, anxiety for h... ...Abbot Martin have laboured to teach you.” So Richard told the beads of his rosary—black polished wood, with amber at certain spaces—he repeated a pray...

...diately under its chin), a bone ring, large enough to have represented the rosary of a young nun. Knife handles, umbrella tops, the heads of walking ...

...ienne and Gabrielle knelt down at the prie-dieu, and the nurse recited her rosary. “O God!” prayed the girl, with a fervor which carried her beyond te...

... three, except the medal that had always distinguished Ebbo, and the coral rosary at Christina’s girdle. Her own trinkets had gone in masses for the s... ...ough freebooting godless sinner such as I had been? See”—and he took out a rosary of strung bladders of seaweed; “that is what he left me when he died...

...e cloister. She entered her house, laid down her prayer-book, chaplet, and rosary, and other ammunition which these old girls carry, then poked the fi...

...ow each other, going very close by the Essex shore. Such as the beads of a rosary told by business-like shipowners for the greater profit of the world...

...ciated face lower, and the fingers of her clasped hands, entwined with her rosary, were pressed still closer to one another. What were they both think...

...g, not for the first time, the Midsummer Night’s Dream. Clara was making a rosary of beads for a little figure of a Sister of Charity, who was to atte...

...f Brian de Bois-Guilbert gain the prize,” said the Prior, “ I will gage my rosary that I name the Sovereign of Love and Beauty.” “Bois-Guilbert,” answ... ...d there be more of them abroad. I tell thee, friar, thou must lay down the rosary and take up the quarter-staff; we shall need every one of our merry ... ...o storm the pass alone?—make in, mad priest, show thou canst fight for thy rosary,—make in, brave yeomen! —the castle is ours, we have friends within—... ...chard looked around, and beheld the jovial Friar on his knees, telling his rosary, while his quarter-staff, which had not been idle during the skirmis...

...efly did was to pray and commend himself to God; but what am I to do for a rosary, for I have not got one?” And then it occurred to him how he might m... ...ng eleven knots on it, one bigger than the rest, and this served him for a rosary all the time he was there, during which he repeated countless ave-ma... ...ll, and of the good Maritornes, who, sinner as she was, promised to pray a rosary of prayers that God might grant them success in such an arduous and ... ...te beard fell below his girdle. He carried no arms whatever, nothing but a rosary of beads bigger than fair-sized filberts, each tenth bead being like... ...ss his shoulder the baldric with his good trenchant sword, took up a large rosary that he always carried with him, and with great solemnity and precis... ...a card too much or too little, I will station myself apart and count on my rosary here the lashes thou givest thyself. May heaven help thee as thy goo...

...to kneel, as I heard people say, like a grim statue over my chair, with my rosary hanging from my hands, for if I did but hear a rustle and turn my he... ... up in bed, with her best Flanders-lace nightcap and ruffles on, her coral rosary blessed by the Pope, her snuff-box with the Queen’s portrait, and he...

... stood a bedstead under a muslin canopy with silk stripes and a long amber rosary with a red tassle at the end hung by the pillow. “But excuse me, who...