How To Use Adamantine In A Sentence
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Gem varieties include topazolite, similar in color and transparency to topaz; demantoid, a green variety with a high dispersion and adamantine luster, sometimes miscalled olivine and Uralian emerald; and black melanite.
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Danlo's natural nobility and his adamantine resolve not to hate seemed only to frustrate Pedar.
THE BROKEN GOD
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I don't have a problem with naturalistic explanations for miracles, as long as they are not too tortured or based on a philosophy which is, at bottom, the adamantine will to deny the supernatural at all costs.
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Maybe it's the word adamantine's magnetic lure and
Culture Making
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Danlo's natural nobility and his adamantine resolve not to hate seemed only to frustrate Pedar.
THE BROKEN GOD
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To every kind of cajolery and social recommendation he presents an adamantine front, and his success has been due in a great measure to his wise choice of instruments.
Kitchener, Organizer of Victory
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adamantine" standard, which is absolutely flawless.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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It was all warm and shimmering and more adamantine than diamond.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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Adamantine clinkers, made of gault clay, are much used; they must have chamfered edges, otherwise they make too smooth a floor for a stable.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
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On the problem that has advanced sex in the party we must adamantine.
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It was nice, however, to see the iconic moment that Wolverine rises out of the adamantine injection tank and, you know, kicks ass.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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If you shoot Captain America at point blank (careful to get under his adamantine chainmail shirt), the bullet rends regular old, human flesh and bone, and he dies.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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The word 'adamantine' is connected with the Greek adamas, meaning 'unconquerable.'
The AOXOMOXOA song cycle
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Greece will bring an adamantine spirit to the final rather than virtuosity.
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I am possessed, as much as the next man, of that stiff upper lip, steely resolve and adamantine backbone which make us British positively megalithic in the face of danger.
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What should advance agriculture and rural economics structure adamantinely is strategical adjust.
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Of all colorless stones, the only one likely to mislead the expert in this respect is the whitened zircon (jargoon), which has almost adamantine luster and in addition nearly as high dispersive power as diamond.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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The lustre of this is the true "adamantine," or diamond, brilliancy, and the other and impure divisions of this particular lustre are: _splendent_, when objects are reflected perfectly, but of a lower scale of perfection than the true
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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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
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Most natural corundum is of industrial quality, but transparent to translucent varieties with their adamantine to vitreous luster potentially yield gemstones.
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Danlo's natural nobility and his adamantine resolve not to hate seemed only to frustrate Pedar.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Danlo's natural nobility and his adamantine resolve not to hate seemed only to frustrate Pedar.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Genius, devotion, and courage; the adornments of his mind, and the energies of his soul, all exerted to their uttermost stretch, could not roll back one hair's breadth the wheel of time's chariot; that which had been was written with the adamantine pen of reality, on the everlasting volume of the past; nor could agony and tears suffice to wash out one iota from the act fulfilled.
I.8
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Naturally, the minor speculators throughout the city — those who had expected to make a fortune out of this crash — raged and complained, but, being faced by an adamantine exchange directorate, a subservient press, and the alliance between the big bankers and the heavy quadrumvirate, there was nothing to be done.
The Titan
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Azurite's luster is vitreous to almost adamantine.
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A FRIEND WITH WHOM I HAVE A DAILY CORRESPONDENCE takes great pleasure in needling me on my, shall we say, adamantine position that we need to start fighting the First Terrorist War to win it and not as if we are engaged in a game of patty-cake.
Think Progress » Sen. Lamar Alexander ♥ David Horowitz
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Here is Prometheus, the rebel: nail him to the rock; secure him on this towering summit fast in the unyielding grip of adamantine chains.
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Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris.
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
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They need hope - a kind of unflappable, adamantine hope.
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AVING contributed to bring into notice the mineral fubftance from the EafUIndiesi which is generally called adamantine fpar, I beg leave to lay before the Royal Society tho following account of its hiftory and introdu£kion.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts ..
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Here was stored almost every small article required by humanity, from an inflamed emery cushion to a peppermint Gibraltar -- the latter a kind of adamantine confectionery which, when I reflect upon it, raises in me the wonder that any
An Old Town By the Sea
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Abasio rose, unable to resist the adamantine will in the old man's voice, unwilling to resist any request Olly had made.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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The lustre of this is the true "adamantine," or diamond, brilliancy, and the other and impure divisions of this particular lustre are: _splendent_, when objects are reflected perfectly, but of a lower scale of perfection than the true
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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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
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A single lash emerged from the ebony handle, but it had been wickedly inlaid with tiny adamantine barbs.
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A compromise material was stearin - also known as adamantine from its resemblance to stone.
