tourmalin
- a variation of tourmaline.
Example Sentences
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Had the tourmalin never been wanted, it would have been a matter of indifference, whether the direction for it at Dr. Sharpe's at Cambridge, had been remembered or forgotten.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria
He extended his electrical researches, and made a variety of experiments, particularly on the tourmalin.
From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin
By heat and by decomposition; the tourmalin; cats; galvanic pile; evaporation of water.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus
It was a large tourmalin, set in small brilliants—a lovely blue, like the eyes of its wearer.
From The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
The present craze of Society women is for Chinese pink jade and tourmalin.
From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
