The look on Jessi's face when he'd crushed the red beads disturbed him.
Xander sifted through Ashley's colorful beads, uninterested.
If Brandon and Ashley were around, there would be little messes and beads everywhere.
A strand of wampum, consisting of purple and white shell-beads or a belt woven with figures formed by beads of different colours, operated on the principle of associating a particular fact with a particular string or figure, thus giving a serial arrangement to the facts as well as fidelity to the memory.
Modern Venetian beads are similarly coiled.