Sentence examples for finger prayer from inspiring English sources

Politicians who, ten years ago, sitting down for a night session with a couple of friends, would open a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label and chuck the cap in the trash as if opening a can of beer, now piously finger prayer beads as they plot their next assault on public order.

Headlined "Francesco Helps Us", it maps out the distinct components of the Pope's "five finger prayer" [for an English explanation of the five-finger prayer, click here].

A popular one named the 'five finger prayer' can be a good way to remember popular topics that you want to remember to hit in a prayer: The Thumb: This finger is closest to the heart.

Old men with long beards sit beneath trees, fingering prayer beads, their skin brown and wrinkled.

I pass a woman with long plaits wearing a black homespun dress, fingering prayer beads and humming quietly.

Sitting in a spare hotel conference room, he wore a newly grown beard and fingered prayer beads.

After receiving the order, the nuns drank green tea, fingered prayer beads and worried about what to do.

Bearded young men fingered prayer beads and attended Friday prayers at the Al Iman Mosque, where prayers were offered for the protesters.

Groups of fasting men fingered prayer beads as they reclined against its yellow brick walls, while women watched their children run and laugh in the mosque square.

Someone lighted incense, and hundreds of men streamed in the door and sat on their heels on the carpet, fingering prayer beads.

In his last interview — in early August, less than three weeks before he fled as rebels took Tripoli — Seif al-Islam appeared a changed man, nervous and agitated, wearing a newly grown beard and fingering prayer beads.