By the time she did grasp it, her knees were beading weakly beneath the weight of her body.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
There was a small cloth-covered table at the foot of the bed, adorned with an almost continuous line of brass-headed nails as a kind of beading round the edge, in the center of which rested the plaster image of a young person clasping a cross.
"The Necromancers"
Robert Hugh Benson
"-of such gorgeousness," Marie was saying, "such softness of white doeskin, such wealth of the beading-" "Marie," said Maren sharply, "is there naught to do save gossip?"
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe