| 单词 | diamond dust |
| 例句 | The moon was full and so bright that the trees cast long blue shadows along the ground; the unearthly glow glittered like diamond dust on the freshly fallen snow. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In the moonlight he saw a silver spray burst up into the air, a shower of diamond dust. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z In between the lines of the moon sands, the diamond dust fell onto the desert floor and into sparkly piles. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He was clothed in a coat of velvet and diamond dust with long, fluttering tails in the shape of knife blades, and his boots were white spectral leather buckled with lys. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When I turned it over into the wastebasket, the small heap sparkled like diamond dust. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I’m half-frozen when I get off, but the forests are beautiful, sparkling like diamond dust, mist lifting off the fields and the hills. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Sprinkle a little of that made-to-order diamond dust on all of us. On the Golden Globes Red Carpet, It’s Fantasy vs. Reality 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z I used diamond dust a bunch of times. As Studio 54 Boogies to Brooklyn, Its Denizens Look Back in Wonder 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z He also produced a royal edition decadently embellished with diamond dust. The 10 best portraits of queens 2012-06-02T23:06:01Z The diamond dust was swept up long ago, yet the memory endures of a moment in the late 1970s when a flash of brilliance glittered from the rubble of a bankrupt city. As Studio 54 Boogies to Brooklyn, Its Denizens Look Back in Wonder 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z "The music of Mountain Man is nestled in the tradition of American folk, but shoots like a diamond dust sundog out of the nest and into the high, cold and wide atmosphere" – Underwater Peoples. New band of the day ? No 802: Mountain Man 2010-06-07T10:41:00Z Crossing the threshold between sun-drenched forecourt and interior — where light pours like diamond dust through the doorway, bouncing off the inlaid marble floor — a visitor is transported from the gritty streets to someplace otherworldly. Neapolitan Church Portraits Speak to the Earthly World 2013-01-15T16:43:33Z Or sample a body lotion containing real diamond dust particles? 'I'd ask for extra caviar with champagne': Oscars chef Wolfgang Puck's nibbles tips 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The people she meets are trying to reverse the course of man-made environmental disaster, whether that might involve electrifying a river, shooting diamond dust into the stratosphere or genetically modifying a species to extinction. Electrified Rivers and Other Attempts to Save the Environment 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Once, my father gave him a jar of diamond dust and suggested he use it in his work; that became his Diamond Dust series. Experience: I was painted by Andy Warhol 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Based on an original painting sold last year, each piece is made with layers that include diamond dust and platinum leaf. Artist Carne Griffiths to release 70 prints of 'The Platinum Queen' 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The custom guards included things like gold flakes, diamond dust and real $100 bills, the site said. Michael Strahan's signature tooth gap is gone — or so he says 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The diamond dust in the air Friday morning probably was enhanced by the ashy soot and aerosols originating from vehicle traffic and industry in Fairbanks. How aurora and light pillars formed over Alaska 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Then, the air needs to be still for a few days, and the sky needs to be perfectly clear, without a wisp of a cloud or a shimmer of diamond dust above the ice sheet. Coldest Place on Earth Found—Here's How 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z It so happened that the three stars are the only ones known to be circled by discs of diamond dust. Astronomers find source of stars' mysterious microwaves 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “The sunsets are blue, the dust devils enormous, the snowfall more like diamond dust, and the clouds are thinner than what we see on the Earth.” Mars rover spots clouds shaped by gravity waves 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z You may spot the sparkly, ghostly blur of diamond dust. Light Pillars, a Million-Mirror Optical Illusion on Winter Nights 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The amount of diamond dust varied throughout the day, but at one time, just after lunch, it intensified dramatically, creating one of the most beautiful solar halos I've seen! In pictures: Weather Photographer of the Year - BBC News 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Of course, spraying diamond dust into the sky would ring up a hefty bill. Climate scientists ponder spraying diamond dust in the sky to cool planet 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The procedure starts with a dry microdermabrasion, using a diamond dust tipped wand, which prepares and plumps the skin. Summer Skin Guide: The Five Best Solutions 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z In charging the wheel with diamond dust it is necessary to use a roller shaped as in Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z These blocks are roughly sliced and cut into shape by a rotating metal disk charged with diamond dust. The Woman's Part A Record of Munitions Work 2011-12-31T03:00:15.627Z The faces of the stone thus 'cut' are ground and polished on flat metal discs, fed with diamond dust and oil, and revolving with great rapidity by steam-power. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z But it is done so good-naturedly, or with a sly puff of diamond dust in the eyes of the victims, who don't see the joke which is so apparent to us. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z The moonlight, reflected in them, flashed diamond dust from the upper branches; beneath the lower ones it cast violet shadows on the snow. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z It lay in the distance, blue and sparkling, like ridges and waves of sapphire, breaking through streams of diamond dust. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z When you haven’t had a winning record in four years, you treat playoff momentum like diamond dust. The Fifth Down: Week 17 N.F.L. Matchups 2010-12-31T14:00:59Z The grounds crew kept rolling out a wheelbarrow and dumping diamond dust by the shovel full on the pitcher’s mound, in the batter’s box and along the base paths to help with traction. Zimmerman has blast, Nats crush Rockies 2010-05-14T05:39:00Z A faint smile, glistening like diamond dust, shone on all faces; their eyes brightened and their shoulders straightened, as though just released from a heavy burden. Yiddish Tales So I knew the trail was diamond dust rubbed off the diamonds in the floor by something even harder. The Big Time Yet, in withholding, are the blessings hid, As frequent as in giving; all our prayers If they result in doing but thy bid, Will scatter diamond dust above our cares. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation Its golden light tipped the waves with a sheen of glory and turned the spray into so much glittering diamond dust. Doubloons—and the Girl For the breakfast the table is crossed by a broad band of white carnations, sprinkled with diamond dust. Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Dismal fens ... where fever exhaled its dread gray breath thick over swamp and lagoon ... above, the vast �gis of the firmament, 329wrought in a diamond dust of stars ... a sickly, jaundiced, moon tilted drunkenly.... The Missourian The arc lamps hummed and sputtered, making the flying frost look like diamond dust dropping from the grinding stars. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike Directly, bright scintillations of frost arose upon the white waste of snow, and the whole earth seemed crusted with diamond dust. Mabel's Mistake The moon cleared the top of the eastern ridges with a slow bound, lowering the shadows until the sweat on the horse’s neck glistened like a network of diamond dust strewn on a velvet cloak. The Plunderer Dolphins were playing about on the surface close at hand, showing their absurd muzzles and their black sides sprinkled with diamond dust. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore But smaller instruments reveal only the in-running star streams and the sprinkling of stellar points over the main aggregation, which cause it to sparkle like a cloud of diamond dust transfused with sunbeams. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers The skeleton was still perfectly articulated, and gleamed through the crystalline amber as though its bony surfaces were encrusted with diamond dust. Devil Crystals of Arret She was so pretty and her gown looked as if it was sprinkled with diamond dust. A Modern Cinderella The lap is kept moistened with oil and from time to time fresh oil and diamond dust are applied. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Dirty as the ship was, and dirty as we all were, from the copious showers of diamond dust falling everywhere, yet nothing could daunt our friends from paying us the usual dinner-hour visit. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 Most of the black diamonds come from Brazil, and diamond dust comes from South Africa, Brazil, Borneo, and India. The Economic Aspect of Geology If the motto is made in white wax it should be frosted with diamond dust. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources The ancients also appear at a very early period, to have used diamond dust and oil, and diamond splinters, framed in iron. Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. The surface of the latter is "charged" with diamond dust, that is, diamond dust has been pushed into the metal surface which thus acts as a support to the dust. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public It is a trite remark that diamonds can be polished only by diamond dust. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Other important abrasives are emery and corundum, garnet, pumice, diamond dust and bort, and feldspar. The Economic Aspect of Geology Not a house, but a palace, made of soft-looking, sparkly stones that flash like diamond dust, and inside it is white and still,—the kind of a still that makes you feel dreamy and nice. At the Little Brown House Overhead the somber obscurity appeared touched with a veil of shimmer or sheen like diamond dust floating through the mask of night. Under the Rose The grinding and polishing are done by diamond dust mixed with oil spread on the upper surface of a grooved flat steel wheel revolving horizontally. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The moon had risen and commenced her course through a sky which was so clear that the planets shone like resplendent jewels, and the distant stars like diamond dust. Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America The ground was partially covered with snow, but where it lay bare, it was powdered with diamond dust. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel The wheel being set up correctly, the next step is to arm it with diamond dust. On Laboratory Arts When the sun again appeared, it shone upon a world of pure, glistening white, where the frost particles in the air sparkled like diamond dust. Followers of the Trail Then the operator, using these sticks as handles, presses the stones against each other with a rubbing motion, the surface of the stones being coated over with diamond dust and oil to accelerate the process. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Behold! a wonderful fairy sleigh, white as a snowdrift, and shining in the moonlight as if covered with diamond dust. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Her white and shapely body sparkled as if powdered with diamond dust and the veil that floated about her was woven of fine and shining threads in rainbow tints. The Coming of the King Some operators prefer to hammer the diamond dust into the wheel with a lump of flint, or agate, but there is a risk of deforming the wheel in the process. On Laboratory Arts Fragments of the cotton fell over the edges, and when Alice sprinkled over this, the "diamond dust," it looked as if real icicles were dropping from a bank of glistening snow. Grandfather's Love Pie Put small dabs of mucilage on the costume and sprinkle here and there with diamond dust powder. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays Frost particles vibrated in the air, coruscating diamond dust. North of Fifty-Three But when these luminous masses are examined by more powerful instruments many of them lose their cloudy form, and are resolved into shining points, "like spangles of diamond dust." An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges I imagine one would use a soft steel or ivory slip rubbed over with fine diamond dust and oil by means of an agate. On Laboratory Arts She looked with wonder at the Milky Way, which was like a zone of diamond dust. The Portion of Labor She rested her chin upon her hand and looked up at the deeps of blue powdered with the diamond dust of stars. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" They were as well worth buying as diamond dust, but those who purchased them must have regretted it, for much finer crystals were soon on sale at ten cents a pound. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries But, by skilful use of his magic coil, he gathered up all the diamond dust and carried it back to his cave. Myths and Legends of China The cost of the small amount of diamond dust; required in a laboratory is so small, however, that it; is doubtful whether any appreciable economy will be, effected. On Laboratory Arts Stone cutting is performed as by lapidaries every where with small wheels covered with diamond dust or emery. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life "It looks to me like a golden hoop, with diamond dust inside." A Trip to Venus And this glass case on the table, containing a white cross, covered with wax tube roses, ivy leaves and fuchsias drooping from the arms of the cross, sparkling with diamond dust! Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" When Sun renewed the attack, the lohan threw diamond dust into the air, which blinded the Demon and also half buried him. Myths and Legends of China To make a very deep scratch, a wheel armed with diamond dust, which will be described later on, may be used. On Laboratory Arts He obtained a microscopic deposit on the poles of the battery, which he pronounced to be diamond dust, but which, a long time after, was proved to be nothing but graphite in a crystallised state. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes It was like being cut off from the world, with nothing in sight but this clinging curtain enveloping one like a damp cloud, settling like frost on everything it touches, and glittering like diamond dust. Byways Around San Francisco Bay Shades of size are adjusted by the friction of whirring cylinders coated with diamond dust. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 Here and there, in the illimitable blue, like crumbs of diamond dust, gleamed the first stars of evening. Dawn of All After trying tubes armed with diamond dust, as will be presently explained, I find that emery and thin oil or turpentine, if liberally supplied below the glass, will do very nearly as well. On Laboratory Arts They glittered like a cloud of diamond dust in the sun's rays. The Golden Canyon These emerged in legions and armies, all the way from the finest diamond dust to great, white spheres that seemed near enough to reach up and touch. The Sky Line of Spruce So my eyes fixed on that patch of yellow sand at my feet, watching how the small particles glinted like diamond dust when the sunlight touched them. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest Over each of these ends, and along the whole line of the barricade a mist of dancing, diamonded atoms began to rise; sparking, coruscating points of diamond dust that darted and danced. The Moon Pool For this purpose it is before all things necessary that real diamond dust should be obtained. On Laboratory Arts The hoar frost clung like diamond dust to the reddish hair that framed her cheeks, and her pink little nose sniffed up the cold air. The Indian Lily and Other Stories The white dust of the platform sparkled like diamond dust. The Incomplete Amorist From there to the long ridge of the mountain extended upwards the vast smooth slope of virgin snow, pure and white, sparkling in the strong sunlight as if it had been sprinkled with diamond dust. Revenge! At the cavern mouth a radiance began to grow—a gleaming from which the atoms of diamond dust seemed to try to flee. The Moon Pool In 1889 this was being accomplished on an ivory lap fed with a trace of very fine diamond dust. On Laboratory Arts The air was perfectly still; at a distance on the mountain-sides it sparkled as if full of diamond dust. A Modern Instance It was soft and cool, though, to the feet, and the dust of the white road sparkled like diamond dust in the sunlight. The Incomplete Amorist Dizzy stumbled onto the sill with a sickening thud, scattering the diamond dust from his sun-colored pearl wings into a fine glittering mist upon the green paint. The Cheerful Cricket and Others Like light cloudlets to a certain power of the telescope, they resolved themselves, under a greater power, into stars, though these generally seemed no larger than the finest particles of diamond dust. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation If it does not, a little diamond dust rubbed into the side of the wheel, as well as the edge, will do all that is required. On Laboratory Arts She was smiling contemptuously still—always the same smile—but her forehead appeared to have been sprinkled with diamond dust. The Powers and Maxine Her short dress of blue silk was studded with gold stars, and to each shoulder was fastened a long, pointed train of yellow gauze sprinkled with diamond dust. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 All around lay glittering reaches of untrodden snow, blinding to look at, scintillant as diamond dust. Dreams and Dream Stories Also diamond dust had been lightly sprinkled on them, and glittering crystal icicles hung from the branches. Patty's Suitors The lady-birches waved in the wind; and when the sun shone, everything glittered and sparkled as if it were sprinkled with diamond dust, and great diamonds were lying on the snowy carpet. The Pink Fairy Book Snowflakes, tremulous on the fur, were turned into diamond dust in the light from a street-lamp which showed as well a tiny place where her collar had been torn and mended ever so carefully. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man It was Grace Harlowe in a robe made of cotton wadding thickly sprinkled with diamond dust, gotten up to represent the spirit of Christmas. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School Bayport was buried under a white coverlet, three feet thick on a level, which shone in the winter sun as if powdered with diamond dust. Cy Whittaker's Place Of course it was not real snow, but made of white plaster, gleaming all over with diamond dust. Patty's Suitors A pall of fog lay over the world so heavy that it beaded the face and hands and deposited a fairy diamond dust upon wool. The Drums of Jeopardy The spray of a hundred fountains was misty diamond dust in the warm air laden with the scent of myriad flowers. The ninth vibration and other stories Among the valleys and around the trees flitted the shining fragments,—a diamond dust swept by the freshening breeze. Seraphita |
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