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  • noun Plural form of beryl.

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Examples

  • One of the gold corners, with three of the beryls in it, was missing.

    Sole Music 2010

  • If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten. '

    Sole Music 2010

  • 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Any injury to it would be almost as serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Along these zones, it is possible to dig for pockets of beryls or topaz crystals. '

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • All their doors stood open: so I entered and found them full of pearls and jacinths and beryls and emeralds and corals and car buncles, and all manner precious gems and jewels, such as tongue of man may not describe.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • There were callaides shot away from the mountains with slings, carbuncles formed by the urine of the lynx, glossopetrae which had fallen from the moon, tyanos, diamonds, sandastra, beryls, with the three kinds of rubies, the four kinds of sapphires, and the twelve kinds of emeralds.

    Salammbo 2003

  • It doesn't help some-one like a concubine, who might have a collar studded with beryls, but a common worker won't have more than one.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Round green emeralds were ranged in order upon thin plates of ivory, and in one corner were silk bags filled, some with turquoise-stones, and others with beryls.

    The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

  • Its feet were red with the blood of a newly-slain kid, and its loins girt with a copper belt that was studded with seven beryls.

    The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

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