1.   Children learn numerical concepts, for example, by handling wooden beads or numbers cut out of sandpaper.

2.   He wears a gold watch set with diamonds and rubies next to a string of lacquered wooden Buddhist beads, a good luck charm.

3.   He wears a gold watch set with diamonds and rubies next to a string of lacquered wooden Buddhist Page beads, a good luck charm.

4.   This one had stuffed an entire string of wooden beads into her mouth and was screaming the house down.

5.   When they moved, their clothes rustled and clacked, as strung Murano glass beads touched or as tiny threaded wooden beads met.

6.   A bank executive says the soft tapping of his wooden beads melts his stress.

7.   She began her line with wooden beads last fall, and then moved into semi-precious stones in January.