What is "diamantine"

Usage examples of "diamantine".

Finally getting a grip on herself, she rose and went back to the ring of diamantine stones.

Unlike them, no walkways spanned it, and it was paved with the cross-sections of diamantine lithons quarried, perhaps, from the broken ring where they had spent the previous night.

They began to pass doorways opening into rooms lit by diamantine blocks set in the walls.

The interior walls, she saw, were shot with deep cracks, radiating out from the diamantine blocks.

The rest of the house had been bright with sunlight and diamantine reflecting off white walls.

The glow of the diamantine pavement faded away underfoot, and then Jame's hand lost contact with the wall.

She saw a glow in the mist before her, and a few moments later came up to a pair of diamantine stones each a good nine feet tall.

It formed a shining roof over the circle and walled it, but Jame could clearly see the huge, gape-mouthed imu faces on the far side, thrusting out of the diamantine lithons.

Her very soul seemed to be tearing its way to freedom, and the diamantine imus gave back the murderous echo.

Above, other imus of diamantine emerged along the cliff heights, spitting earth from their frozen, gaping mouths.

The Wolver crouched unhappily on the threshold while Ardeth and Danior went in with a handful of their guards to look by the light of mist, diamantine, and torch.

The night sky was cloudless now, brilliant with diamantine stars, little chips of frozen fire in the dark velvet of that fathomless floor.

He could see, rearing up above the waves, the spires and minarets and twisted towers and diamantine domes, and even, in the misty height, the very palace of the High Shivantak—and the whole image ghostly, fringed with refractive rainbows.

He looked first of all due north, straight out over the huge and smoothly sculpted and whitely phosphorescent bow-wave thrown up by the knife-edged forefoot of his racing destroyer: four miles away, no more, framed in its backdrop of indigo sky and diamantine stars, lay the brooding mass of a darkly cliff-girt island: the island of Kheros, for months the remote and beleaguered outpost of two thousand British troops who had expected to die that night, and who would now not die.

CAPRICHOSO, A MOST ACUTE ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, IN PRAISE OF ROCINANTE, STEED OF DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA SONNET On that proud throne of diamantine sheen, Which the blood-reeking feet of Mars degrade, The mad Manchegan's banner now hath been By him in all its bravery displayed.