The two best known and most widely used varieties of chrysoberyl are alexandrite (transparent) and Oriental cat's-eye (opaque).
He blinked his white eyes, opaque and cloudy with cataracts.
There is a natural gentleness about the countryside there, he says, his blue eyes opaque with regret.
This allows Atwood to use the language and insight of a mature woman while maintaining a child's narration: Cordelia sits with nonchalance, nudging me with her elbow now and then, staring blankly at the other people with her grey-green eyes, opaque and glinting as metal.
Cataract is an age-related condition in which the lens inside the eye becomes opaque, blurring vision.
Before President Obama, whose brown eyes are opaque when you look into them, presidents have been more known for blue eyes.
Her hair, dyed blond, is long, the skin of her face is rough and her dark eyes are opaque.
The minutiae of trade negotiations spanning years may seem eye-glazingly opaque, but their substance promises meaningful help for the world's poor.
The Americans took him to an airfield, cut his clothes off with scissors, dressed him in a jumpsuit, covered his eyes with opaque goggles, and placed him aboard a private plane.
Stiff-backed and unsmiling, her dark eyes as opaque as cough drops, the French actress Isabelle Huppert gives one of her greatest screen performances as Erika Kohut, a haughty, sexually repressed priestess of high culture in Michael Haneke's powerfully disquieting film, "The Piano Teacher".
