The result is diamantine and must be heard to be believed. From Wordnik.com. [A symphonic life, played with one hand] Reference
The polishing is effected by means of diamantine and alcohol. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
The final polish can soon be imparted by means of a small boxwood slip, or flattened peg-wood, and diamantine and alcohol. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
The subterranean flames roared and crackled; the hills were shaken to their centre; the caves were heaving in their depths, and fresh, glittering, golden, diamantine lumps came ever gushing from the fused and seething mass. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
Mine had made roses of the sweetest hue bloom on Catherine's cheeks and strewn into the flowery blue of her eyes drops of diamantine dew. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
Son of the Sultan craved leave to return to his own motherland, when his father-in-law gave him an hundred clusters of the diamantine and smaragdine grapes, after which he farewelled the. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
There was that about Count Giraldi, a diamantine brilliancy, a something hard and crystalline, a positiveness, an incisiveness of view and reflection, which on first acquaintance decided me not to take him into my confidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
(Dancegoers with very long memories could compare the pas de deux in the final act to Balanchine’s “Sylvia” pas de deux, which I know only from black-and-white silent film showing Maria Tallchief, at her most diamantine and thrilling, and Andre Eglevsky.). From Wordnik.com. [Ballet in London: NYCB and The Royal go Toe to Toe - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
When you have drilled sufficiently to hold a plug firmly, then have a piece of steel of spring temper filed so as to fit closely and so straight that it will not act too wedging (and split the arbor), drive it in, cut it off and turn down, finishing with an oilstone slip, and polish by running the lathe rapidly and with a piece of thin boxwood (or hard pegwood) charged with diamantine, being sure that the end of the pivot has no burr, thrown either way, over end or on side, for such a burr will cause a lack of freedom of a balance pivot particularly. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
On that proud throne of diamantine sheen. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 14] Reference
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