What is "chrysoberyls"

Usage examples of "chrysoberyls".

The Makahomian catseye chrysoberyls had enriched both the Linyaari and Hafiz immeasurably, and the improvements on both MOO and Vhiliinyar were the result of that influx of wealth.

The Heloise is being boarded by thieves — the dancers have stolen the catseye chrysoberyls and are hijacking Andina's ship — with you in it.

As soon as the security chief appeared, Becker said, "I know you said your business with Andina was urgent, Commander, but I've just been notified that the belly dancers have raided Hafiz's store of catseye chrysoberyls, which has got to be more urgent.

The blessed Singing Stones might have been singing their hearts out long before this for all we know, but they never tried to sing loudly enough to be heard until the sacred catseye chrysoberyls of Makahomia were deposited in close enough proximity that the Singing Stones felt the emanations from their fellow sacred stones.

Your relationship to the stones is what caused them to set up such a racket once they made contact with the chrysoberyls and hence, with us?

Grimalkin froze the lot of them, turning them all temporarily Solid, and used his own tractor beam to extract the chrysoberyls from the war memorial.

We have been deputized by House Harakamian to arrest you for the theft of the chrysoberyls from the Moon of Opportunity.

She also sent him clear images of the pile of chrysoberyls lying in somewhat scattered disarray on the bridge of Grimalkin's vessel.

Harakamian had looked at the catseye chrysoberyls, as if they each had discovered, or rediscovered, a treasure beyond price.

As they were entering orbit on their way to join your crew, they picked up the homing signal from the stolen catseye chrysoberyls and located them in the ruin of a ship heretofore undiscovered outside Aari's cave.

The cat's-eye stones the local people were wearing-which were more properly called chrysoberyls - were not only beautiful and sacred, according to Nadhari's lesson on Makahomian culture, but also very useful in the mining and terraforming industries across the universe.

These were lensed with chrysoberyls the size of the Condor's viewport.

The size of our chrysoberyls is so rare, I am told, that their like is unknown in the universe.

These were used in the galactic mining of the cat's-eye chrysoberyls, and should also serve to either poison the priests or drive them out of the stronghold, where they would perish in the waterless vastness of the desert.

Silently it descended, and Kando gazed with wonder at the deep clear waters, within whose depths even now he could see the eyes of the chrysoberyls shining through the ripples.