| 单词 | adamantine |
| 例句 | “The haunting begins at midnight,” said the girl with the adamantine chin. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This exhibition reminds us how early she found her voice, while the belated book reveals her adamantine pursuit of its implications. Alice Trumbull Mason: America’s Forgotten Modernist 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In this hardscrabble world, the embattled man must “form that solid and adamantine fibre which will endure long and serious attacks upon it,” lest he be “wholly emasculated.” Lessons on Male Insecurity (and Indigestion) from Walt Whitman’s Men’s-Health Column 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Were it not for the director’s steady hand and adamantine focus on her destination, this ambition could have been the film’s undoing. Review: ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ Takes a Deep Dive Into Systemic Injustice 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z At its worst, however, Thatcher’s adversarial approach to politics made her seem adamantine and unfeeling, which created enmity among a meaningful portion of the industrial working class. Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z “I’m very competitive,” she said, her tone adamantine. Carolina Herrera, Then and Now 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Its adamantine perfection is the perfectly unstable embodiment of a moment of unendurable consciousness—of an ideal that was still awaiting its transformative action. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z In his 1726 translation of “The Odyssey,” Alexander Pope claimed that Circe possessed an “adamantine heart,” but Miller finds the goddess’s affections wounded, complicated and capable of extraordinary sympathy. Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z It is a performance worth seeing for the thrill of the adamantine first movement—and for the hope that the other movements, on second or third run-through, will become similarly strong. Finding the Awesome in Bruckner’s Eighth 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The task requires agility, and an adamantine core. Who Can Say ‘No’ to Cuomo? His Top Aide, Melissa DeRosa 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z That visible cross-pollination, and an adamantine refusal to be categorized, represents “a new way of doing things,” Mr. Krakoff said. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z “She has this sort of adamantine presence onstage. And that weird ability that great actors have to sort of say, ‘OK, now you’re all going to feel this because I’m feeling it,’” he said. For Sharon D Clarke, a ‘Big Sing’ and a Big Broadway Moment 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Koirala, a Bollywood star, brings a taut poise to a mother whose veneer seems adamantine until the Duttas walk in the door. ‘India Sweets and Spices’ Review: Gossip, Secrets and Biting Laughs 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Akira is not so much an obstacle, then, as he is a diamond in the rough, a permanent part of Takiko and her adamantine resolve to live on her own terms. Review: What a 1980 Japanese novel about a single mom foresaw about pandemic loneliness 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z He’s since backed off a bit from his adamantine opposition, but the core of his position was concern that the measure would add to inflation. Column: Farewell to 2021, the stupidest year in American history 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z George’s response to these tumults was, in Roberts’s phrase, “adamantine inflexibility.” Review | American colonists called him a tyrant. But was King George III really so bad? 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z She arrived in the United States from India in the early 1980s, armed with a jet-black braid that fell down her back, dreams of dental school and an adamantine sense of determination. Perspective | Far from her homeland, my mother finds comfort at a Patel Brothers grocery store 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z In parts of the state — especially in Brooklyn, where Ms. Nixon is expected to struggle given Mr. Cuomo’s adamantine ties to the black community — Mr. Williams is the better-known quantity. Cynthia Nixon’s Secret Weapon: A Running Mate With Star Power of His Own 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He was adamantine: the Culture would stay until everything else in the universe was like them. Does Elon Musk really understand Iain M Banks's 'utopian anarchist' Culture? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z This country is in the midst of an excruciating existential battle over whether it should keep its adamantine abortion statute, giving an unborn baby equal rights with the mother. Opinion | Scarlet Letter in the Emerald Isle 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Trump has traded the anguished Hamlet Comey for the adamantine Marine Robert Mueller, the Justice Department ramrod who remade the FBI after 9/11. Can Robert Mueller's Investigation Separate Fact From Fiction? 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I don’t know, but my resistance is adamantine. 'A certain sort of maleness': Helen Garner on a week spent watching Russell Crowe films 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z As Louis, the English-Irish actor Jack O’Connell is pretty great, both at evoking the character’s suffering and at rendering Louis’s adamantine, even impossible, will to survive in the face of great misfortune and cruelty. ‘Unbroken’ movie review: Angelina Jolie spins Louis Zamperini’s World War II tale 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In Paradise Lost there are nine gates, three of brass, three of iron, and three of adamantine rock, and they are guarded by Sin, Death and the ever-barking hounds of Hell. 10 facts about Hell 2013-05-13T23:49:44Z Naturally, my adamantine, if hypocritical, reply when I hear someone else utter such bromides is thus: “the value of an education is not measured in its immediate utility!” 'When Am I Ever Going To Use Algebra?' The Real World Utility Of Classroom Learning 2012-12-06T23:07:30Z China retained their Olympic gold medal, maintaining an adamantine grip on the competition throughout, and there was a 10 minute wait before the final placings were decided. GB gymnasts seal surprise bronze 2012-07-30T18:31:00Z “I would marry you, knowing that you could not harm my adamantine interests,” laughed Bombs. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z First in two squares, and then in one solid square they continued their retreat all day—sometimes broken, yet always re-forming and presenting the same fringe of glittering steel, and the same adamantine front. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z After many centuries of woe, Hercules, son of Jupiter and Alcmene, found Prometheus, killed the vulture, broke the adamantine chains, and liberated the long-suffering god. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z To a sound judgment, and a penetrating sagacity, he joined a boundless enterprise and an adamantine constancy of purpose. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z In his present company he was an adamantine Capitalist, and regarded Trades Unions as the most pernicious of institutions. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z He hated intensely, and loved intensely; with an affection as unchanging as his adamantine will. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z He too was signally defeated, and bound with adamantine chains in a burning cave under Mount Ætna. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z "Hearts of oak!" our captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z Was it possible that this adamantine nature could be softened? My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z The result of the adamantine rule of the last Hojo but one was peace. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z It is found as well-developed crystals of a bright hyacinth-red colour, which are translucent and have an adamantine to vitreous lustre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z But bind him, bind him, Julia, in adamantine chains; make sure of him, while he is yet in your power; and follow, with all convenient speed, the dance your sister is going to lead off. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z The lustre of the diamond is peculiar to itself, and hence termed 'adamantine.' The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z It was hard, solid, and black, adamantine one might almost say in its extreme hardness. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z His chains, heavy and numbing, were riveted with adamantine links! and so forth--with a chorus of bleating. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The adamantine spirit of Yale is shaken by the problems of the Sophomore societies; and it will not be many decades before other universities will be in a similar predicament. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z He speaks with an adamantine finality which is destined to rude shattering. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z They most strikingly exemplify the adamantine grip which each one of the two nationalizations kept upon its greatest and best. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Time did its work at last, even on his adamantine character, softening the asperities, and wearing away the corners of a disposition, the angular eccentricities of which had long been so noticeable. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Take from your earth its vital spirit, the energy that subjects matter, and your so-called adamantine rocks would disintegrate, and sift as dust into the interstices of space. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z It takes much soaking to prepare the adamantine seeds for sprouting. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The rules of conventionalism have reared an adamantine partition wall between the two. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z You must find answer in the resourcefulness and adamantine will of one great man. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z Strength.Now, straight through the chest, Take him and bite him with the clenching tooth Of the adamantine wedge, and rivet him. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z The lustre of glass is vitreous, that of the diamond adamantine; and I know of no other distinction which it is more difficult for students to recognize than this. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z Within a properly miraculous minute, both players had scored, the adamantine German team had crumbled, and Manchester United had been crowned champions of Europe. T Magazine: Man United! 2011-09-09T16:05:10Z “Hearts of oak!” our captain cried, “when each gun From its adamantine lips, Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse of the sun.” O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z Their crystalline form is regular; their lustre is adamantine; they present the beautiful colour of the ruby; they are perfectly transparent, have the hardness of the ruby, and easily scratch topaz. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z And now, Hephæstus, thou must needs fulfil The mandate of our Father, and with links Indissoluble of adamantine chains Fasten against this beetling precipice This guilty god. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z It was a lucky moment for him, since it was upon this minute but adamantine corner-stone that the Governor of Fort St. George began to build up the fortunes of the great house of Pitt. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z Moreover, the Hostel's point of view on the subject was as adamantine as it was universal. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z But there was in him something deep-lying and adamantine which forbade this solution. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z The peculiar lustre exhibited by the diamond is called adamantine, and is shared to some extent by certain other stones which have a high refractive index and high dispersion, such as zircon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Twice his host had listened with adamantine politeness; this time he was enjoying quite the second-best liqueur brandy to be had at the Rag; and he leaned back in his chair. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z Again the questioning grows gradually more intelligent, more reasonable, accommodating itself, often after much suffering, to the adamantine limits of human knowledge. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z She sought the passage which tells how the arch-fiend was— Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z His adamantine belief in this great idea, daily strengthening by the study of God's works and word, was his shield and spear. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z Early in the Apollo program, the conventional wisdom was that the spacesuits would be like the rockets: adamantine, metallic, armored and smooth. Op-Ed Contributor: The Spirit of the Spacesuit 2011-07-21T15:06:01Z Beauty itself, which he so widely sought, I asked him to note, is a needless, harmful, and even impossible thing in a world of adamantine logic and necessity. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z She is very lenient with the white people whom she loves and absolutely adamantine with the coloreds. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z For such an irresistible combination of unselfishness and beauty could not possibly flow from any other source than the unconscious reminiscence of old sympathies, and adamantine bonds, forged and welded in a previous existence. A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z O Science, is there beyond the grave which shuts down with adamantine wall between this life and the future? Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Science, which affects to dote on the material, is everywhere brought up short by impalpable but adamantine gates of which God alone holds the key. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Certainly, she was fair enough to impress the heart even of this adamantine soldier. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Here, however, she was adamantine, and her native secrecy prevailed. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z The band of marriage is adamantine—no hope of loosing it; thou art undone. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z It struck only the adamantine ice of the pathway, splintering it. Polaris of the Snows 2011-03-02T03:00:28.900Z But they rebounded from her adamantine breastplate, blunted and broken; and no one will have the courage to pick them up and hurl them again. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Yet a positive, adamantine resolve grew within me ere I came in. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z “Now then, sir; this way, please,” said the hard-faced footman, whose countenance, if stony before, was now adamantine. By Birth a Lady Thus we fasten on our opponents as with adamantine glue the thunderbolt-like fallacy of reasoning in a circle. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy They have given to the world men of one idea, of immense energy, of adamantine will, of revolutionary power. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent I suppose there is no adamantine ground for any belief. The Wonderful Visit "But still he stood unmoved, Hard as the adamantine rock, Dark as a sullen cloud before the sun." Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution He was a blunt official of adamantine integrity, a veteran of the war. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories By great adamantine Laws everlasting, Here we must all our Round of existence Faithfully finish. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 "We rejoice at the consoling fact that Catholic savants themselves break the fetters with which Rome's infallibility has bound in adamantine chains the human mind!" cried Lutz with enthusiasm. The Progressionists, and Angela. Watching us over the adamantine walls and all that kind of thing. The Wonderful Visit I was prepared to be coy—but not adamantine. Nancy of Paradise Cottage For this reason the mineral is not always readily recognized by inspection, though the perfect dodecahedral cleavage, the adamantine lustre, and the brown streak are characters which may be relied upon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Gud tapped the rock with his staff and discovered from its adamantine nature that it was the Rock of Conservatism. The Book of Gud The occasional shouts of the arrieros sounded here sharp and percussive, and seemed to smite themselves to death against the adamantine walls. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 Oh, dark grew soon the heavens— For each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like a hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII It is usually colourless or white, sometimes grey or greenish in tint; it varies from transparent to translucent, and has an adamantine lustre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" She expected a characteristic greeting from H. R., but his face was so full of adamantine resolution that her curiosity promptly turned into vague alarm. H. R. The usual lustre of crystals of cassiterite is remarkably splendent, even adamantine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Thou, whose regal power, Finite in time, but infinite in space, On more than adamantine basis fix’d, O’er more, far more, than diadems, and thrones, Inviolably reigns; the dread of gods! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes That embryo spirit, yet without a name, That friend of Nature, whose avenging hands Shall burst the Libyan's adamantine bands? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII The mineral may be readily recognized by its characteristic twinning, in conjunction with the adamantine lustre and high specific gravity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" For a light get a small brass candlestick like those used for camping, and use adamantine candles. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 They were walking along involuntarily, and through the mist Jenny's words of sense, hardened to adamantine sharpness by suffering, cut clear and cruel and true. Carnival Has not flame, ocean, ether, earthquake, strove To strike this truth, through adamantine man? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Diamond possesses a brilliant “adamantine” lustre, but this tends to be greasy on the surface of the natural stones and gives 159 the rounded crystals somewhat the appearance of drops of gum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" With their resinous to adamantine lustre and their translucency they also present somewhat the appearance of horn; hence the name hornsilver. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Why should the "adamantine lips" of sixty-eight pounders salute those little babies? Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) She is self-sufficingness, adamantine purpose, studied craft, and cold disdain incarnate. Greek Women Such varieties were termed by J. Black, in consequence of their hardness, adamantine spar, but this name is now usually restricted to a hair-brown corundum, remarkable for a pearly sheen on the basal plane. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" But there is no veil like light—no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. Let our long, steel ocean-bloodhounds, adamantine dogs of war, Sweep the yellow Spanish panther from the seas!— Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses Nothing again can be finer, than his subsequent preference of The powers of genius and design, over even the stupendous range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Beautifully developed crystals, up to 2 or 3 in. in length, encrust cavities in compact, white colemanite; they are colourless and transparent, and the brilliant lustre of their faces is vitreous to adamantine in character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Then, one night, as he was watching his lines and hooks, something happened which broke the adamantine seal upon his soul. Prisoners of Conscience In each scene with him, after each plea, or through it, she came to this adamantine wall. The "Genius" Along the front, "Forward!" was the word, and the Conic Section swept to the assault, like a sea of bayonets dashed against a shore of adamantine rock from the hollow of an Almighty hand. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 He led them again and again against the seeming adamantine wall of rebels, and finally forced them back slowly, holding all the ground gained. Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles Cinnabar is generally found in a massive, granular or earthy form, of bright red colour, but it occasionally occurs in crystals, with a metallic adamantine lustre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" When did the great spirit of the river first knock at those adamantine gates? Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Recollecting the adamantine strength of his prison, Bertram felt his German superstitions stealing over him; but again he heard the voice; and, opening his eyes, he saw a dull light in the room. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. It is a bitter pill to swallow, an adamantine nut to crack. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) "Aunt Priscilla," says the adamantine youth, "what is the name of the house with a big gate, about a half a mile from this?" Rossmoyne He pleaded; he argued; he left no means untried to melt that adamantine will. Cudjo's Cave This electronic device Nick had stolen to operate the three ponderous triple-fold gates of adamantine, brass and iron. Satan and the Comrades He was one of those rugged, adamantine spirits, who could stand against the world for a principle, but he was gracious, courteous, tender and sympathetic withal. Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20 Willard made this pronouncement lightly, though the adamantine rules and impassable barriers of a whole social order were embodied in it. The Wishing Moon When did the great spirit of the river first knock at these adamantine gates? Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' I would like to set out to-morrow and search all through the world for the most adamantine processes of embalming. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Again—“Before I die, I think my literary fame may be fixed on an adamantine foundation.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Even so he kept His prentice vows of Duty, Industry, Obedience, words contemned of every fool Who shrinks from law; yet were those ancient vows The adamantine pillars of the State. Collected Poems Volume Two Angels serried before him their battalions; the long lines of adamantine shields flashed back on his blind eyeballs the unutterable splendour of heaven. Shirley There seemed an adamantine wall built up around him, and yet the fruit in the inner garden was more rarely sweet than she had ever dreamed it could be. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Guy nothing daunted bent his bow of steel; but his arrow rebounded as from an adamantine wall, when the dreadful beast rushed at him like the wind. Traditional Nursery Songs of England With Pictures by Eminent Modern Artists The independence of the poet probably impressed Emerson more than his yielding would have done, for had not he preached the adamantine doctrine of self-trust? Whitman A Study But come they must, and no power can hinder them; not even that once mighty Church which has always striven to bind Humanity to the past with adamantine chains of dogma. Arrows of Freethought For one helpless moment Gordon sensed the incredible strength and adamantine hardness of the Xoranian’s slender figure, together with an overwhelming impression of colossal weight in that deceptively slight body. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 The only God that nature points to is an adamantine Fate. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion Vitae-Ore is a natural, hard, adamantine rock-like substance—mineral—Ore—mined from the ground like gold and silver, and requires about twenty years for oxidization. The Mayflower, January, 1905 To the adamantine fortune-teller was attributed a devotion so strong, so passionate in the days of her youth that her reason had been well-nigh unhinged by the hopelessness of it. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Freed from fear we can now breathe easily, for we know that no Deus ex machina meddles with those serene and mighty forces whose adamantine grasp encloses all the phenomena of nature and of life. An Ethnologist's View of History An Address Before the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, New Jersey, January 28, 1896 I did not know—for there was no example to teach me—the power of a really united people, the adamantine strength of institutions which were truly free. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The earth, frozen to adamantine hardness, precluded the possibility of digging a grave during the winter season. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob Such scenes ever tend to pervert the kinder tendencies of our nature, and to render the mind adamantine in its manifestations; nor were his less susceptible to these influences than others. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 It must be an adamantine constitution and temper that could long bear with impunity the daily contact with a Lincoln, a Seward, a Halleck, and others less noted, indeed, but not the less contagious. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 She stared palely at his square, adamantine face. Counsel for the Defense To polish diamonds they make use of the powder of adamantine spar, or the corundum stone. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton Mr. Huntingdon might storm ever so loudly, his anger would break against an adamantine fate. Wee Wifie The goddess calls The night-born sisters, fierce, implacable: Before the close-barr'd adamantine gates They sit; their tresses twisting round with snakes. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II But as an adamantine rock among storms, so Mr. Lincoln remains unmoved. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The steady strain that never stops Is mightier than the fiercest shock; The constant fall of water drops Will groove the adamantine rock; We feel our noblest powers decay In feeble wars with every day. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul After two days’ battle— Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire.—i. 44-48. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' The goddess, with determin’d aspect turns Her adamantine key’s enormous size Through Destiny’s inextricable wards, Deep driving every bolt on both their fates. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete A lofty rock the foaming waves o'erhangs, Whose dashing force deep in its base have scoop'd A cavern, safely sheltering from the showers: The adamantine summit high extends, And o'er the wide main stretches. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II They discovered that they were merely butting their heads against an adamantine rock. India, Its Life and Thought There is little likelihood of mistaking a bluish diamond for any other stone on account of the "fire" and the adamantine luster of the diamond. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Had I a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues, A voice of brass, and adamantine lungs, Not half the mighty scene could I disclose, Repeat their crimes, or count their dreadful woes! Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Why, then, should we ever doubt that God ponders and numbers in his heart the afflictions of his people, and that he measures our tears and inscribes them on adamantine tablets? Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Thus, the “feeling of liberty,” as he calls it, is resolved into an illusory judgment, and the scheme of necessity is exhibited in all its adamantine strength. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory From that day the name “Stonewall” attached to Thomas Jonathan Jackson and was peculiarly appropriate as indicating the adamantine, unyielding character of the man. How the Flag Became Old Glory Blue zircon, however, has nearly adamantine luster and considerable fire. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public So far I came in my dream times without number; and always on the verge of joy there came that doom, and the shooting of those adamantine bolts. Apologia Diffidentis Yes, write it in the rock," Saint Bernard said, "Grave it on brass with adamantine pen! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold So far from saying anything, then, to extricate the volitions of men from the adamantine circle of necessity, he has exerted his prodigious energies to fasten them therein. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory She knew well that strata of hardness in his 261 nature, the adamantine will that wrought torture to its possessor because it could not bend. The Wall Between Brown zircon, while lacking dichroism, is frequently rich and pleasing in shade, and when well cut is very snappy, the luster being almost adamantine, the dispersion being large, and the refractive index high. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public He masked the adamantine hardness of his grasping nature beneath an air of generous and bluff good-fellowship. 'Me--Smith' Four-square it stands, upon adamantine foundations, and nothing in heaven or earth is able to shake it or disquiet it. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Let this distinction be clearly made and firmly borne in mind, and the great boasted adamantine scheme of necessity will resolve itself into an empty, ineffectual sound. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory And what a triumph for a thief to capture an adamantine heart! Penny of Top Hill Trail The luster too is almost adamantine while that of ruby is softer and vitreous. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Oh for an adamantine law to protect the human race from the imbecility, the weakness, the discontent, and the extravagance of old age! The Fixed Period There is something magnificent in that adamantine spirit which refuses to recognize the new, even though it moves with ever-increasing distinctness before the very eyes of the deniers. The Blue Germ Utter silence and utter lifelessness engulf the Globe; the frozen and adamantine bars of oblivion fall. The Masque of the Elements We must say, All things in the world are fatally predetermined, and hang together in the adamantine fixity of a system of natural law. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The true hyacinth has more snap and fire owing to its adamantine surface luster and high dispersive power, as well as to its high refractive index. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public The adamantine official alone is at his ease, and, as the minutes go, the knell of the train-loser sounds the deeper, the horrid jargon is yet more irritating. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea But here, where everybody says that all men are equal, and everybody is afraid they will be; where there are no adamantine barriers of birth and caste; people are anxiously exclusive. Humanity in the City In the character of the swineherd, the central point is his loyalty, adamantine as the rock of his humble home. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary The miserable truth oozed out of her in foolish little speeches; those continual droppings that wear the hardest stone, and which wore even the adamantine surface of the Captain's tranquil temper. Vixen, Volume III. The surface luster is not adamantine, however, and the edges of the facets cannot be polished so sharply as those on a diamond. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Lightly built,—not, like vessels designed for this coast, double-planked and perhaps iron-prowed,—she would easily have been staved by a shock upon this adamantine ice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 My experience of Russian ispravniks is varied and extensive, and I therefore realised that argument was useless with this adamantine official, whose petty tyranny was evidently not confined to his dealing with his exiles. From Paris to New York by Land Its strength we feel, its adamantine fidelity to the House of Ulysses. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Again and again, an unexpected twist would bang his throbbing head against the adamantine sides, and with a wince, a sharp, in-drawn breath, he would hold himself "together" for one more bump! The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Moreover, the luster of zircon is nearly adamantine, so the expert does not miss the cold metallic glitter as he would with any other white stone. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public The Duchess paused; it was like beating one's hand against some adamantine barrier. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg But all was silent, all was deserted; the vast adamantine portals were closed. He Those are to my mind who wish to clear up every thing, who fight with the adamantine shield of individuality, against which all prejudices, earthly or heavenly, are shivered. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Our provisions were already adamantine; the meat was transformed into red Finland granite, and the bread into mica-slate. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland But it all proved as the labour of Sisyphus, for the seat was of sadly insufficient dimensions and adamantine hardihood, and whenever the bicycle-man released his hold, I instantaneously endured the total upset! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. The walrus herds seem, in the evolution of ages, to have got an appreciation of this fact through their adamantine skulls. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers Though Mr. Perkins called personally upon that lady, and laid before her the question of Johnnie's health, she was adamantine in her refusal. The Rich Little Poor Boy The bill for Impartial Suffrage in the District of Columbia," said Mr. Sumner, "concerns directly some twenty thousand colored persons, whom it will lift to the adamantine platform of equal rights. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Existence is a daily struggle with adamantine facts and conditions; and quick, practical response, which leaves little encouragement or opportunity for dreamers, is, often enough, the only dividing line between life and death. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. To count them all demands a thousand tongues, A throat of brass and adamantine lungs. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II A single slip, and she would have cracked like a nutshell against those adamantine walls. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers Whole jars of the latter adamantine, crystalline, saccharine delight graced the shelves of many a colonial cupboard. Customs and Fashions in Old New England We send our resonance echoing down the adamantine cañons of the future! The Book of Humorous Verse At length the dread signal flew 'along the lofty British line,' and each gun— From its adamantine lips, Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 We perceive that He has relied upon love, upon love strengthened to the adamantine force of insanity or delirium, by the mere aspect of utter, utter helplessness in the human infant. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 That adamantine mixture of gneiss and quartz, prepared in nature's laboratory throughout millions of years, was now furnishing the rock which, beneath human manipulation, was flowering into the great cathedral! Flamsted quarries They were too absorbed with straining the beans and the onions now cooked to shreds, from the adamantine potatoes. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp There, where the gnarled monuments of sand Howl their dark whirlwinds to the levin brand; Conclusive tenderness; fraternal grog, Tidy conjunction; adamantine bog, Impetuous arrant toadstool; Thundering quince, Repentant dog-star, inessential Prince, Expound. The Book of Humorous Verse It is of true adamantine lustre, classed by experts as midway between the truly metallic and the purely resinous. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones The difficulty of keeping up a conversation with that being exhausted Mrs Fyne herself, who had come to the table armed with adamantine resolution. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Here is open, rushing water, throwing up clouds of steam that settles upon everything as dense hoar frost, while all other water is held in the adamantine fetters of the ice. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska She had gotten into the Shakespeare Reading Society purely by persistence and the possession of adamantine self-confidence. Fair Harbor Who shall pierce the ancient prison-house where Nature's might, in mightier chains of adamantine frost, lies fettered, since Creation? The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 The lines of cleavage are parallel to the sides of the prism, and the crystals have an adamantine, or diamond lustre, varying from the completely opaque to the transparent. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones “Stands the vault adamantine Until the Doomsday; The wine-cup shall ferry Thee o’er it away.” Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not an adamantine wall that encircles us, it is the tender mystery of the sunset or the starry heavens. The Chief End of Man Working among these adamantine timbers, the boy stops to look across the broad and deep valley. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Here and there, it looked as though an adamantine serpent had grooved its way over the convex iron surface, as a worm leaves the mark of its crawling in the soft earth under the stone. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman Hearts of oak!' our captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. English Songs and Ballads It must not be supposed that Katie’s sympathetic heart had suddenly become adamantine. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands Ah! the brow of snow and the peach-bloom cheek may snare the heart of man for a time, but the loving look alone can forge that adamantine chain that time, age, eternity, shall never break. The Dog Crusoe and his Master It struck, and, as if it had fallen on an adamantine rock, it bounded off and fell upon the ice, with its hard point shattered and its handle broken in two. Ungava “Hearts of oak!” our captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer In one of them he says: “Greatly did we sympathize with your manliness, your steadfast and adamantine understanding, your freedom of speech and boldness.” Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America "If we can find a sample of the adamantine spar, in sufficient quantities, it would be the best substance." The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns Whole blocks of stone had fallen to the sand, and the adamantine pillars were cracked and crumbling with the erosion of ages. Out Around Rigel The stream of time washes away the fabrics of other poets, but leaves the adamantine structure of Shakspere erect and uninjured. Shakspere, Personal Recollections The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith. The Necessity of Atheism It is merely my way of describing the adamantine qualities of Liszt and Tausig—two magnetic mountains of the kind told of in Sinbad, the Sailor, to which was attracted whatever came within their radius. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Of course, what you say is adamantine sense. The Napoleon of Notting Hill As you bound along, your wit will brighten and your eloquence blaze, your courage grow more adamantine, and your generous feelings burn with a livelier flame. The Young Duke This cursed wheel indeed no longer whirls; but I confess my expectations will be much disappointed if I cannot free myself from these adamantine bonds that fix me to its orb.' The Infernal Marriage I fought with all my strength, 'gainst Love Divine When he assailed with blows from every side This cold, enamelled, adamantine heart, Whence my desires defeated his intent. The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem That glance so full of truth and goodness, With an adamantine chain? The Youth of Goethe Instead, there are come to be great, weighty, metallic masses, molten piles and sheets of steel and iron, shining adamantine bulks. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers What we call accident is but the adamantine chain of indissoluble connection between all created things. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry When we have proceeded some hundred yards, we shall reach the adamantine portals. The Infernal Marriage The bush broke, causing the mule to fall back forcibly against the inner bank, with myself sandwiched between the adamantine wall of the mountain and the well-shod heels of the mule. A Truthful Woman in Southern California ‘Hearts of oak!’ our captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys It refused you for the greater part the true adamantine hardness of the artist, the inviolability of soul, the sense of style. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Well might he muse upon the havoc which the rising tide of nationalism and skepticism has wrought in the adamantine traditions of his country. The Promised Day Is Come One held a distaff, from which the second spun; and the third wielded an enormous pair of adamantine shears, with which she perpetually severed the labours of her sisters. The Infernal Marriage Far below he could see the green, surging water lashing the adamantine walls. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World "Hearts of oak!" our captains cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language This iron, this granite and adamantine music, this grim, poignant, emphatic expression will not fit into the old conceptions. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The adamantine sanctities of God's government made forgiveness impossible. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life This enchanting harmony preceded the regiment of Proserpine's own guards, glowing in adamantine armour and mounted on coal-black steeds. The Infernal Marriage Instead of crumbling it hardened into a unity which is adamantine. Italy at War and the Allies in the West What boots it! armed in adamantine mail, The unconquerable mind, and genius high, Right onward hold their way through weal and woe, Or whether life's brief lot be high or low! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan He is safe in the security of silence and in the calm self-poise of his adamantine will. Shadows of the Stage For is it not one flexible instant of opportunity, and then an adamantine immortality of doom? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life "And that whales are playing in shoals, thrashing the bottom of the sea, the roof of our adamantine prison?" A Journey to the Centre of the Earth And those on whom heaven, earth, and hell relies, I mean the adamantine Destinies, He wounds with love, and forced them equally To dote upon deceitful Mercury. Hero and Leander In vain they climbed the rocky heights: I struck The adamantine mountains, and like dust They crumbled in the billowy foam. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan "Hearts of oak!" our Captain cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The growing shadow rose and rose, filling, and then seeming to endeavour to burst beyond, the adamantine vault that bent over, sustaining and enclosing the world. The Last Man Indeed, at last, I point-blank refused to furnish any information upon this matter whatever, and with this adamantine decision they were forced to remain content. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben From the silt borne down on the flood-tide you can guess the fertile plains watered and far above the fertile plains, regions of eternal snow and glacial torrent warring turbulently through the adamantine rocks. The Canadian Commonwealth His expression was as hard and cold as adamantine, nor did a single feeling of pity move him. The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution Yet as I prayed, my entreaties and my tears went up to no compassionate God, but beat themselves upon the adamantine face of Dead Man's Rock that still rose inexorable between me and Heaven. Dead Man's Rock That power ministrant, —— —— and with quick despatch Unfolds the Stygian doors, that jarring hoarse Slow on their adamantine hinges turn'd, And open'd to their ken the dread abyss, Unfathomably deep, mother of woes. Gustavus Vasa and other poems Hell bounds high reaching to the horrid roof And thrice three fold the gates: three folds were brass, Three iron, three of adamantine rock. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 There are frightful energies beneath that adamantine surface—energies which have been confined by a rude, imperfectly organized system of force; a chain-work of abuses roughly welded together as occasion required. A Short History of Russia His reputation had grown out of an adamantine adherence to it. Square Deal Sanderson Richberta remained adamantine, and in full view of the starving multitude she had the precious cargo cast into the sea. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine She had succumbed less to his gentleness than to the knowledge that it was she alone who evoked that gentleness out of a nature almost adamantine, wholly masculine. The Voice of the People But oh, the princess! her hard heart is shut By adamantine locks against my love. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 But had I then foreseen what now I know, When through the adamantine gates he pass'd To bind the dog of hell, by the deep floods Hemm'd in of Styx, he had return'd no more. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Both, indeed, admit of degrees, and the feeling, beyond a certain degree, is a species of pain; but adamantine hardness does not imply the least pain. An Introduction to Philosophy Deville's adamantine boron burns in the same manner, but with more difficulty, becoming fluoride or boron. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 He says, "consistency of figure rather required some material image, like iron scourge and adamantine chain." Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 King Arthur, in his Bohemian days, carried an adamantine shield, the gift of some fairy relative. Idolatry A Romance Meantime, Minerva, progeny of Jove, On the adamantine floor of his abode 132 Let fall profuse her variegated robe, Labor of her own hands. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Crushed between the adamantine millstones of things as they ought not to be? The Gun-Brand And our first discovery will be that such communication has adamantine limitations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 She was the bulwark of the Church, against whose adamantine front the wrath of innovation beat in vain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 All is now secure and fast; Not the gods can shake the Past; Flies to the adamantine door Bolted down forevermore. May-Day and Other Pieces Meantime, Minerva progeny of Jove, On the adamantine floor of his abode445 Let fall profuse her variegated robe, Labor of her own hands. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper But under all his lovingness and his boyishness, Laurence had a sternness, a ruggedness as adamantine as one of Cromwell's Iron-sides. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man "The adamantine truths of Buddha struck like a thunderbolt upon the superstitious of his age." The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji Thou art he who is possessed of an adamantine body. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 In manhood's prime and possessed of an adamantine frame, he was not capable of being slain by any creature! The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Oh, dark grew soon the heavens— For each gun, From its adamantine lips, Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like a hurricane eclipse Of the sun. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon Then he brings his adamantine fist down on the bar to the peril of all glassware. David Lockwin—The People's Idol If he only might try them—just to test his own fine power of resistance and adamantine will! The Cab of the Sleeping Horse At Gibraltar, at its entrance, she has a magnificent bay, more than five miles in diameter, deep, safe from storms, protected from man's assault by its more than adamantine rock. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 They were fierce, tawny in hue, terrible, of adamantine teeth, and dyed with blood. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 He was always, or almost always, the first man in the company, not elated, nor over-awed," standing on the adamantine basis of his manhood, casting aside all props and shoars." The Life of Froude The adamantine iron tether Which chained two provinces together, Ere legislation's fiat came With moral might to do the same. Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants And thou, O river of to-morrow, flowing Between thy narrow adamantine walls, But beautiful, and white with waterfalls And wreaths of mist, like hands the pathway showing; I hear the trumpets of the morning blowing. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration You will go through life with her, and yet parted from her as by an adamantine wall. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Similarly, the valiant Bhima, taking up his adamantine mace, challenged the king like a lion challenging a lion. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Eye of clear and diamond sparkle, Where the Baltic waters darkle, Lonely German seer of Reason, Great and calm as Atlas old; Through our formless foggy season, Short thine adamantine cold. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Yet in every walk of life, says my mother, there were a few survivors in the shape of stolid, adamantine misogynists. The War of the Wenuses The breakdown of attempts at a compromise between the monarchy and Pope Leo XIII. revealed the adamantine hostility of the Vatican to the King's Government in Rome. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) We have learned too much to be wholly responsive to less than an adamantine honesty of soul and a complete acknowledgment of experience. Aspects of Literature Turning Back A Turn-down "Good for you!" praised the undaunted salesman, who had come prepared for adamantine obstacles in his path. Certain Success They were like adamantine projectiles flung with the savage strength of a catapult against the walls of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist His adamantine gravity inspired her with an irresistible impulse to levity; so the law of averages claimed its innings. Queed Who with sufficient dignity will describe Mars covered with adamantine coat of mail, or Meriones swarthy with Trojan dust, or the son of Tydeus by the favor of Pallas a match for the gods? The Works of Horace The notion of living in tents on potted beef and adamantine biscuits was shuddered at. The Siege of Kimberley In that crystal air, instinct with its delicate, dominant implication of things imponderable, the personality of each persisted undisturbed, in a kind of adamantine unconsciousness. Romance Island Literally so: you would weep for me if you saw how, between these two adamantine certainties, I am whirled and tumbled. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. It is ominous, vivid blue-black—solid, adamantine, a crystal wall of amethyst. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Crystals from some other localities, notably from Monteponi in Sardinia, are transparent and colourless, possessed of a brilliant adamantine lustre, and usually modified by numerous bright faces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Another would have cried out against him at this accusation—or burst into tears and so disarmed a less adamantine man. The Son of Clemenceau The truths they held were clear, clean-cut, adamantine, foundational, and unchangeable. Sketches of the Covenanters She turned and saw him, but she felt no dread, Her purity, like adamantine mail. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Connection, an element of robust mesmeric cohesion with this prized author being the adamantine hyphen, the articulating link, which compacts the roll. Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes That cannot be broken; hence fate is "the wall adamantine." Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School Your hair is stiff and lustrous as polished ebony, bound at the neck in an adamantine knot, in which dull pearls are encrusted. Profiles from China But now within my reach—almost in my arms—naught between us but a promise, a mere breath—that breath as strong as adamantine walls to part us! Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy He could no longer stand, even for a single hour, her harshness, her air of moral superiority, her adamantine obstinacy. The Price of Love All is now secure and fast; Not the gods can shake the Past; Flies-to the adamantine door Bolted down forevermore. Poems Household Edition The girl's steely blue-eyed glance shot out at the greeting, but seemed to drop off flatly from Mr. Bishop's adamantine spectacles like a bullet from Bessemer armour. Mr. Prohack I remember you were such an impatient blasphemer, however musically, against the adamantine identities, in your youth, that you should take your turn of resignation now, and be a preacher of peace. Ralph Waldo Emerson For a few moments De la Vega dared not raise his eyes to the Lady of Loreto, standing aloft in the dull blaze of adamantine candles. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California They are ideal figures, speaking with a force and an elevation unknown in actual experience; they never blench, they never waver, but move adamantine to their doom. Landmarks in French Literature And as the light divides the dark Through with living swords, So shall thou pierce the distant age With adamantine words. Poems Household Edition He could not tolerate scenes, and his glance showed that any forcible derangement of his habit of existing smoothly would nakedly disclose the unyielding adamantine selfishness that was the basis of the Wrissell philosophy. The Regent "And break your teeth on adamantine sandwiches, harder than Professor Krenner's problems in algebra?" suggested May. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways There he came to an adamantine castle, invisible by day, but radiant at night, where he was received by the famous horse Papillon, and sumptuously entertained. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art —The splendid words flow out like a stream of lava, molten and glowing, and then fix themselves for ever in adamantine beauty. Landmarks in French Literature He gloried in "Magna Charta," and never knowingly sacrificed his baronial privileges, yet he was wax in the hands of a skillful wheedler, and his "adamantine will" was readily fused in the fires of flattery. Miriam Monfort A Novel He had loved her so—the one soft side of his adamantine character. The Reason Why Her body was fastened to the bed as if with adamantine chains, while her mind and soul were the voiceless spectators of a tragedy of which she knew that she was the cause. Round the Block With a deep sigh which should have spoken volumes to her adamantine heart, Courage gathered all the mugs together by their handles, and reluctantly marched out of the room once more. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk The gates which lead to the Elysian fields may slowly wheel back on their adamantine hinges to admit now and then some new and chosen modern. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Before his fame, steadily ascending from its adamantine foundation, gave signs that it was to encircle the globe, some imagined him too prudent. Washington in Domestic Life "Hearts of Oak!" our Captains cried; when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun. The Illustrated London Reading Book My impressions had an adamantine hardness and brightness: there was no blurring softness, no atmosphere, nothing but infinite darkness set with the myriads of these acute and brilliant points and specks of light. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The fortresses, Rossberg and Sarnen, are the country's dread; For from behind their adamantine walls The foe, like eagle from his eyrie swoops, And, safe himself, spreads havoc o'er the land. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes "He who legislates only for a party, is engraving his name on the adamantine pillar of his country's history, to be gazed on forever as an object of universal detestation." The Grammar of English Grammars Hell's adamantine floor And aught that else stands firm can Artemis move. Theocritus, translated into English Verse He was in the act of lifting the massive weight, to have shattered the adamantine stoppage, when he was surprised by a noise behind him. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829 It is this which makes us revert, with ever verdant freshness, to our homes and native places, and binds us to the land of our birth with adamantine links. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) You are hard with me, Elinor—always flinty and adamantine, and that sort. The Grafters The German authorities, though scrupulously polite, were adamantine in their refusal to permit us to pass through the German lines. Fighting in Flanders And near him Alexander sits and smiles, The turbaned Persian's dread; and, fronting both, Rises the stedfast adamantine seat Erst fashioned for the bull-slayer Heracles. Theocritus, translated into English Verse It was a sort that hardened in an adamantine resolution. Mary Wollaston Some new agency of steel must be invented to cope with the adamantine iron. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 This devotion deeply moved her—and the adamantine face lost the stern rigidity of its terror. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Who, within his inner consciousness, does not feel that same ferine, savage man struggling against the stern, adamantine bonds of morality and decorum? Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main If he was in adamantine chains, he couldn't. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Who do you suppose it was," she asked, "who insisted, in an adamantine manner, that it be done like that? Mary Wollaston It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high. Gulliver's Travels Then down the steep, powerless to guide or to check the shell, we plunged in a meteor rush straight for the annihilating adamantine breasts of the cliffs! The Moon Pool But, being kindled by love of her Master, this adamantine and indomitable soul bore these annoyances more easily than other men bear their pleasures. Barlaam and Ioasaph Her aweless spirit failed For weariness nor fainted, but her might Was adamantine. The Fall of Troy The queen of wisdom could foresee, But not prevent the Fates decree; And human caution tries in vain To break that adamantine chain. The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces Nature's hand has raised Her adamantine rocks and hedged her in With bulwarks girded by the foamy main: And but for one short bridge of narrow earth Dyrrhachium were an island. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Surely the adamantine barrier of marriage with another could not be pierced like this! The Woodlanders The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. Dracula It had seemed interesting and even admirable to him then—but then he had not foreseen the possibility that he himself might some day confront its adamantine barrier with a sinking heart. The Market-Place Because God put His adamantine fate Between my sullen heart and its desire, I swore that I would burst the Iron Gate, Rise up, and curse Him on His throne of fire. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke At last appear Hell-bounds, high reaching to the horrid roof, And thrice threefold the gates; three folds were brass, Three iron, three of adamantine rock, Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire, Yet unconsumed. Paradise Lost He searched his brain now for some clever quip that would strike sparks from the adamantine mood which for the moment it was her whim to assume. The Damnation of Theron Ware Mrs. Jenkins, moved to memories long dormant of the home of her youth, suggested blinds instead of window-shades, but the Boarder after much figuring proved adamantine in resistance to this temptation. Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley As a rock, mam—I say as an accurs—ha! an adamantine crag, mam. The Amateur Gentleman Her own personal loss and agonizing sorrow had been engulfed in her acceptance of the world's tragedy, but it had made adamantine her desire to serve France. I Spy He yielded not; adamantine to the seductive lure, he picked up his heels and ran. The Black Bag Nor are they wiles, nor woman's lures, nor blandishments of tricksey dimples, nor captivating smiles, with which she forms her adamantine fetters. Anna St. Ives In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Still rocks, rocks, rocks, against whose adamantine sides my feeble will dashed restlessly and impotently. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 To her mid-Victorian mind Sinclair Spencer was not conducting himself as a gentleman should, and her half-considered resolve to drop him from her visiting list became adamantine as she observed his appearance. I Spy She felt a saintly vindictiveness, and a determination to place herself as an adamantine shield between him and her friend. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 It is wielded by men of strong arms, adamantine will, and hearts animated by the divine impulses of patriotism and liberty. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Let us place her on that adamantine throne, which it is for the felicity of the human race she should occupy. The System of Nature, Volume 2 Also, all winter, I dreaded that he would he less lucky or less adamantine when spring came. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire For He will never relax the adamantine grasp of His strong hand until He raises us to Himself, and 'if so be that we suffer with Him we shall also be glorified together.' Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Amiability being unavailing, I tried bribery, but found him adamantine. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia The Castle in Ireland, theoretically, was under popular control, but it was adamantine in policy. The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity Be good, because goodness connects all hearts in adamantine bonds! The System of Nature, Volume 2 It was considerably swollen, and rushed fleetly on its course between overhanging banks of snow and ice, from which depended adamantine icicles. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. The nine-fold gates were of brass, iron, and adamantine rock, reaching high to the mighty roof, and most horrible were the Shapes that guarded it. National Epics Personally, he discovered, he preferred such beauty to the latter adamantine qualities. The Happy End "I could never," she said gently—her gentleness was adamantine—"under any circumstances whatever, consider, for a moment even, the possibility of parting with the picture at such a price." Crucial Instances Yet adamantine truth rang in his words; I submissively agreed to leave this blessed haven of peace. Autobiography of a Yogi What animated Sparta with that high, unbending, adamantine courage, which conquered Nature herself, and has fixed her in the sight of future ages, a model of public virtue, and a proverb of national independence? The American Union Speaker But there is no veil like light -- no adamantine armour against hurt like the truth. The Marquis of Lossie He found the biggest, ugliest, and most useless trees on his particular piece of ground; also the greatest number of adamantine stumps. While the Billy Boils High service done to man— For this I bear the adamantine chain. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles He awoke her hastily in case his courage should fail before that most adamantine thing—an unsympathetic atmosphere. Gone to Earth The soul, encased by a wall of adamantine circumstances, and driven around a track of unvarying duties, shrivels, or gets diseased. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 Any bounds made with body, even adamantine walls, are so far from putting a stop to the mind in its further progress in space and extension that it rather facilitates and enlarges it. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 Sensibilities, which at the same time that they contradict thy charge of an adamantine heart in thy friend, thou hadst known nothing of, had I not communicated them to thee. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 From time to time the adamantine gates fell ajar, and in we slipped. Hawthorne and His Circle And the vast dome received her prayer, empty and adamantine. Gone to Earth Thy countenance, so sternly set, Did seem to say how vain to knock At thy heart's door, for all within Was hard, as adamantine rock. Canada and Other Poems How serene his angels in their adamantine virtue! yet what sinning, suffering soul could find sympathy in them? Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 A multitude whose trampling shook the plains, With discord of harsh sound and rumblings deep, As if the swift revolving earth had struck, And from some adamantine peak recoiled— Jarring. Tecumseh : a Drama Hid is the womb of time, Impregnable to mortal glance, and deaf The adamantine walls of heaven rebound The voice of anguish:—Oh, 'tis one, whate'er The flight of birds—the aspect of the stars! The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy It is an aggregate of upright, rugged, adamantine points, and at a distance, a river of it looks like a dark brown Mer de Glace. The Hawaiian Archipelago The agency of the Police Magistrate was sought to decree terms of separation, as there was an adamantine resolve on the part of each to no longer live with the other. A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians The transfer of affection from an all loving Father to an adamantine universe is a process for which we may well seek all the aid that the witchery of poetry can supply. Lectures and Essays They had a private compartment, over which a respectful but adamantine conductor exercised an authority that irritated R. Schmidt beyond expression. The Prince of Graustark He spoke, and smote the long-resounding shield, Which bears Jove's thunder on its dreadful field: The adamantine aegis of her sire, That turns the glancing bolt and forked fire. The Iliad There is no reason, certainly, for expectations so foolish; but is there no adamantine reason against them? Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 His iron breast has met with others as adamantine as his own. The Scottish Chiefs I really had to defend the girl; though I am just as angry myself when I watch her adamantine sullenness.' The Two Sides of the Shield O thou, the pride and pink of all that wear The adamantine steel! The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 29 These shining on, in long procession come To Jove's eternal adamantine dome. The Iliad Eddie Ten Eyck's credit was so good that he succeeded in borrowing nearly five thousand dollars from erstwhile adamantine sceptics. Her Weight in Gold From the eyes came tears, from the mouth flowed words and the hands were joined, as though in prayer to that throned and adamantine Spirit which was ME. She and Allan The Rev. Hetherington listended to her story with all the sympathetic horror she could wish, and she felt buoyed up in her adamantine decision, although she still harped on the intention of praying for guidance. Winding Paths Even an offer of money failed to move their adamantine hearts. The Exploits of Elaine These powers enfold the Greek and Trojan train In war and discord's adamantine chain, Indissolubly strong: the fatal tie Is stretch'd on both, and close compell'd they die. The Iliad Something stronger than my passion opposes an adamantine barrier. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Of this adamantine rock all the hills were now composed. Expedition into Central Australia Domestic habits at Aylmer Park had grown with the growth of years till they had become adamantine, and domestic habits required prayers every morning at a quarter before nine o'clock. The Belton Estate They are of that immortal part that will live after crumbling column and the adamantine foundations of earth have passed away, and lost their present identity in countless forms of a higher existence. Town and Country; or, life at home and abroad, without and within us To count them all, demands a thousand tongues, A throat of brass, and adamantine lungs. The Iliad Yet we have a sort of family history of our God,—so have the Tahitians of theirs,—and some old poet's grand imagination is imposed on us as adamantine everlasting truth, and God's own word! A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers But, ah! celestial enchantress! the necromancy of thy tyrannical charms hath fettered my faculties with adamantine chains, which, unless thy compassion shall melt I must eternally remain in the Tartarean gulf of dismal despair. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Now my theory explains many things, and, among others, the adamantine, imperishable, impenetrable nature of the substance vanity upon which the showman, Nature, projects in fast fading colours the unsubstantial images of men. The Witch of Prague Their arrows have glanced harmlessly from the adamantine shield of his loyalty, and there remained but the alternative of calumniating him to his empress. Joseph II. and His Court No man was adamantine; at least she had never met one—not one, neither bishop nor octogenarian. The Judgment House She was the bulwark of the Church, against whose adamantine wall the waves of innovation beat in vain. Pioneers of France in the New World But he was mortal, after all; for suddenly the serenity of that adamantine countenance was disturbed; his eye dilated; his grace and dignity were shaken. Peg Woffington At the thought of the adamantine character of his soul, which could thus definitely close its gates on her for ever and ever, she became wild, angry, feverish—not quite sane. The Titan It is a hard moment for mothers, and no wonder that they seem unwarrantedly adamantine. Missy For stone and earth had been crushed, compressed, into a smooth, microscopically grained, adamantine complex, and in this matrix poppies still bearing traces of their coloring were imbedded like fossils. The Metal Monster Rejoice and sing, for only thus couldst thou rightly guard the golden knowledge, Truth, the delicate pearl and the adamantine jewel of the Law. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations Delos was then a floating island; but when Latona arrived there, Jupiter fastened it with adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea, that it might be a secure resting place for his beloved. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Yet hear this certain speech, nor deem it vain; Though adamantine bonds the chief restrain, The dire restraint his wisdom will defeat, And soon restore him to his regal seat. The Odyssey Emma had a right to her own visitors—nobody ever dreamed that the thing was permanent, and nobody could break down that adamantine wall of Christian virtue she suffered behind, not owning that she suffered. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) The MS. has "shock," and in the next line "adamantine" for invulnerable. The Lady of the Lake The fortresses, Rossberg and Sarnen, are the country's dread; For from behind their adamantine walls The foe, like eagle from his eyrie, swoops, And, safe himself, spreads havoc o'er the land. Wilhelm Tell We make picturesque backgrounds, don't we? you and I, especially you, the soft, tender, lithe and willowy; and I, the frowning, rugged and adamantine, so to speak. The Red Acorn They did not dance nor twinkle in their adamantine setting. The Story of a Mine Above us, higher and higher, towered the crater-walls, while we journeyed on across innumerable lava-flows, turning and twisting a devious way among the adamantine billows of a petrified sea. The Cruise of the Snark As for the correspondent he was adamantine and reliable and stern, for he had not the slightest idea that those men on the distant hill were Turks at all. Active Service Aloysia, in a true, genuine feeling of love, was bound in adamantine chains to her sister. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius It is one of those adamantine tendernesses which are the touchstones of every age and race. What's Wrong with the World Was this adamantine stare after all only the awful sneer of some threefold traitor, who had turned for the last time? The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare What I said then is now made fast in adamantine bonds. Gorgias My brother's exile and mine own divorce Banish remorse clean from my brazen heart, All mercy from mine adamantine breasts. Locrine/Mucedorus But the good senora, after having read Don Marcelo's letters, opposed an adamantine will to all contrary suggestions. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The difficulty of keeping up a conversation with that being exhausted Mrs. Fyne herself, who had come to the table armed with adamantine resolution. Chance A Tale in Two Parts "No," said Dr. Bull in adamantine humility, "it is I." The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare Light tan were his shoes, gray his socks, sky-blue his apparent linen, snowy and high and adamantine his collar, against which a black butterfly had alighted and spread his wings. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million Strange is the life of man, and fatal or fated are moments, Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine! The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Within the noble edifice he again congratulated himself on the adamantine will which had brought him thither. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse For two hours they stand; Bouille's sword glittering in his hand, adamantine resolution clouding his brows: for two hours by the clocks of Metz. The French Revolution While the vault sleeps, from the upheaving deck, Thou see'st the adamantine reefs that wreck, And Life's low shoals, where lusting billows roar. An Anthology of Australian Verse He can lead on the dance of words till their sinuous movements call forth, as if by mesmerism, the likeness of some adamantine rigidity, time is converted into space, and music begets sculpture. Style To fire at it would be useless, for a bullet flattens against the adamantine skull of a buffalo bull. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life An intrepid adamantine man this Bouille:—had he stood in old Broglie's place, in those Bastille days, it might have been all different! The French Revolution |
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