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Usage examples of diamonds.

What did surprise Cole was that these diamonds had cost only two lives.

ConMin told the world what it wanted the world to hear about diamonds, period.

Wing gathered the rough diamonds and began to return them one by one to the worn velvet bag.

The only difference between them was that oil was an essential and diamonds were a luxury.

Silently she picked up diamonds at random, as though to assure herself of their reality.

Although diamonds were mentioned several times, drinking, pissing, and screwing were mentioned much more often.

When she turned the diamonds just so, light fragmented across the table.

A mine that could yield tens or even hundreds of pounds of diamonds like that handful on the table.

The difference is that the world can get by without diamonds a hell of a lot longer than it can get by without oil.

The diamonds in that tin box came from a placer mine with a high percentage of gem-quality stones.

Argyle produced diamonds with mechanical regularity, even if it crushed some promising gem-stones in the process.

Anything that would keep the Japanese from experimenting with better and cheaper ways to produce industrial diamonds was a plus for ConMin.

It can be read as a comment on the poetry, as a comment on how diamonds are formed, and as a comment on diamonds themselves.

For a diamond mine to make any profit, the gem diamonds must be sold at reliable, inflated prices.

First World countries subsidize the cost of mining industrial diamonds for the Second and Third Worlds?