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n. a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: adamant ] a playing card in the minor suit of diamonds the area of a baseball field that is enclosed ...
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The Diamond was a three-masted square rigger , built in New York in 1823. She was one of the first ships to operate a regular service for passenger and cargo between Britain and the United States. She sank en route to Liverpool from New York on 2 January ...
Usage examples of diamond.
Station 1 had a modest-sized accelerator ring grappled to it, like a gold band attached to a diamond.
I confess that I have not yet repented on his account, for Capitani thought he had duped me in accepting it as security for the amount he gave me, and the count, his father, valued it until his death as more precious than the finest diamond in the world.
They will verify the truth of the oracle immediately, and when it is found that the famous diamond is but glittering paste the company will adore my father, for it will feel that but for him it would have been covered with shame, by avowing itself the dupe of a sharper.
No one guessed that the mourning dress of the celebrated French writer belonged to the merchant Fromery, and that the glittering diamond agraffes in his bosom, and the costly rings on his fingers, were the property of the Jew Hirsch.
Her diamond aigrette meets our view, She looks like a glow-worm dressed out, Or tulips bespangled with dew.
At the top was an aigrette of diamonds of the purest water, the centre one as large as a sixpenny-piece.
Sally thought of Diamond, huddled down in the front of the Alfa, and bought the largest bottle of Chivas the meager contents of his wallet could afford.
From other ships he looted cargoes of lapis, pearls, amber, diamonds, rubies, carnelian, ambergris, jade, ivory, and lignum vitae.
As he stopped behind her, Arra placed a six of diamonds on a seven of clubs.
Decorate the space above with slices of potato and beet cut in diamonds, and surround the base with light-green aspic cut in diamonds.
The diamond was emerald-cut and exquisite, flanked by single baguettes, the whole of it set in platinum.
Far beneath was a block of gray, its center a sparking square: Chandos Castle, its glass-topped courtyard vivid as a diamond in a baser setting!
A foreign simile would be to liken Basho to a pearl, and Buson to a diamond.
Thereupon she drew from her finger a diamond ring, worth at least four hundred ounces, and begged me to accept it as a pledge.
The lodge of Diamond in Armagh the splendid behung with corpses of papishes.