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The President's embarrassments prompted many newsmen to eye him with more than usual beadiness when he arrived at the National Press Club with Margaret to attend the club's annual father-daughter dinner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles Turold stepped back from the door with an uneasy look at the cormorant, as though fearing to detect in its unreflecting beadiness of glance some humanly cynical enjoyment at his loss of self-control.

From The Moon Rock by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)

In her rustling advance some wandering trail of the Aunt’s black beadiness had caught on the knotted fringe of the table-cloth, and drawn this after her.

From Man and Maid by Nesbit, E. (Edith)