(n.) A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distinguished by its deep color, which is probably due to the presence of a little oxide of chromium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Beckinsale was Geoffrey, Paula Wilcox was Beryl, pretty, pert and given the best lines: "Beryl, we live in a permissive society."
(2) Other drawings are more bizarre, such as Waldo's wife, who is based on Terry Wogan, while Mrs Utah Watkins is unmistakably Beryl Bainbridge.
(3) Other names from TV production include Beryl Vertue, mother of Sue, who has credits ranging from Steptoe and Son to Men Behaving Badly and Sherlock .
(4) Renwick and Smith met in 1999, at a social club they both joined when they were widowed (Betty in 1998, Beryl in the 80s).
(5) "We're getting paid now," Beryl says, "but we would never be the kind of people who would ask for money."
(6) "I didn't want to go to my grave and get a Beryl," he said referring to Bainbridge, who was shortlisted five times, never won and received a posthumous Best of Beryl Booker prize .
(7) She has many memories of friends such as Beryl Bainbridge: "Beryl had amazing staying power, an extraordinary stamina – for writing, for drinking, for smoking – she kept on till the very end.
(8) Beryl Wilkins, a local historian, lives a stone's throw from a former school built in 1624 as a bequest from the lord of the manor, Lord Knyvett – the man, she says, who felt the collar of one Guy Fawkes.
(9) At Beryl's Florists, Julie Vaughan, said the whole village was in shock.
(10) "She's had no children, you know," Betty says, as a complete non sequitur, in the middle of Beryl talking about her first wage cheque.
(11) Miles, Beryl and their cat survived it twice, emerging slightly scathed and much less keen on the sea.
(12) At one point Betty says about David: "He wants his legs wiping down, doesn't he Beryl?"
(13) Her name is Beryl James and ... she comes from Cairns, and it was her wish that she celebrate her 100th birthday in the Australian parliament.
(14) (1972), a faint echo of the earlier plays, with more than 30 characters, but Simpson wrote several more television plays including Elementary My Dear Watson, a Sherlock Holmes parody for John Cleese for the BBC Comedy Playhouse in 1973, and material for Beryl Reid, Sheila Hancock, Ned Sherrin and Dick Emery.
(15) Harrogate is also famed as the home, in later life, of one of Britain's most brilliant cyclists, Beryl Burton, who died in 1996.
(16) It's been significantly updated – the stand-out moment for me was when Beryl and Betty did a rap over Don't Stop Me Now (they do the words – "I'm a sex machine, ready to reload", which is droll for their dry delivery – but they also chat all the way through: "I think you were out of tune, there".
(17) Someone even cold-called Beryl to ask her to write a piece about what it was like being the same age as the queen (this went down really badly, the unsolicited contact.
(18) Beryl French, 88, pensioner Stratford has so many visitors you could almost call it multicultural.
(19) Monday night's awards also saw the oldest ever Sony winners with BBC Radio Humberside's Beryl Renwick, 86, and 90-year-old Betty Smith winning the best entertainment programme.
(20) Which is fine provided that you ignore the wins of Beryl Burton, Mandy Jones and myself.
Chrysoberyl
Definition:
(n.) A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.