33 Metaphors for diamond

We have been assured from the very firsteven before Ruth Jordan has set eyes on Stephen Ghentthat just such a rough diamond is the ideal of her dreams.

It's like you, you know diamonds are my weakness.

The most perfect, though not the largest, diamond in Europe is the Regent, which belongs to the Imperial diadem of France.

The upper part of her dress was embroidered with diamonds in a broad band, and the dress in front buttoned to the floor with rosettes of diamonds, the central diamond of each button being at least a half inch in diameter.

The diamond horseshoe is waitin' for the chance to land me one swift kick.

And, after all, yachts, and horses, and villas, and diamonds are nice things.'

"Yesa diamond of many carats," was the low rejoinder of JENKINSOP'S friend, WINKLESOP.

Yet I could not say anything, being too much disappointed to find the diamond was a sham, and bitterly cast down at the loss of all our hopes.

I know this diamond is here, as well as a costly chain"

No, my dear, diamonds are a consolation that no woman can afford to miss.

Many object to his versification; it is certain he is no master of numbers, but a Diamond is not less a Diamond for not being polished.

Diamond was a freshman, and so he received a calling down from Hartwick, who told him he was altogether too new.

Diamond is the only man who seems to know how to go after a ball properly.

In truth, therefore, as one diamond is worth numberless bits of glass; so one solid reason is worth innumerable fancies: one grain of true science and sound wisdom in real worth and use doth outweigh loads (if any loads can be) of freakish wit.

You all know that a diamond is pure carbon, actually deposited sunlightand he said another thing I would not forget: he declared that a diamond is the last and highest of God's mineral creations, as a woman is the last and highest of God's animal creations.

Don't you?" "I do!" cried Fanny; "I'm sure my great grandmother's diamond breastpin is much handsomer than this horrid thing!"

Her diamonds would have been the finest in London.'

Here beyond doubt is the cock of Aesop's fable," snarled John Copeland, "who unearthed a gem and grumbled that his diamond was not a grain of corn.

If the diamond be the hardest known substance in the world's jewel-box, the pearl is by no means its near relation in that particular.

I'll bet Diamond is an expert swordsman, and he's just the kind of a chap to lose his head and run you through the body!

The diamonds in her ears and on her fingers, and her overdone and gaudy style of dressing, were some indication, though not a convincing one, that she was a woman of wealth; and Miss Pillbody made bold to ask her if she knew anybody who wanted a private teacher in her family.

Said the old priest, "A diamond is a congealed drop of sunlight.

Chemists say that the diamond is the only instance in Nature of pure carbon: it burns in oxygen under the influence of intense heat, and leaves no ashes.

Diamond had always been a favourite with him since the day she had laid her face against his nose, refusing to doubt him.

What if the scientist of the future be destined to discover that the diamond, and it alone, is a specific for cholera, that powdered rubellite cures fever, and the chryso-beryl gout?

33 Metaphors for  diamond