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.
"The Eternal Maiden"
T. Everett Harré
The great coiling body, the small head, small as a man's hand, the black beadlike eyes shine out upon the intoxicating blue of the sky.
"A Mere Accident"
George Moore
There he was, his small beadlike eyes shining brightly, and his red hair glistening.
"A Galahad of the Creeks; The Widow Lamport"
S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats