Carbon iss coal; carbon iss diamond.

A human figure, glowing like a diamond ablaze, leaped out from it; another shot down from the foremast.

In all the season there is scarcely a single demand for a diamond garter.

" He jammed a diamond whip curling back upon itself into his maroon scarf.

When a fellow walks into a café with you he feels like he's wearing the Hope diamond.

By the time that the Base Ball playing year was almost concluded Brooklyn had so far recovered that it was able to place a better nine on the diamond than had been the case all of the year.

Many looked askance when Larry Gardner, supposedly a second baseman, was assigned to third, but the results more than justified the move, and it made room at second for Yerkes, a player who had proved only mediocre on the other side of the diamond.

"P.S.If a large diamond, a team of six black and white horses, a Sound steamer, or a copy of the Tribune, would be of any use to you, command me.

And all the people came and worshipped him, him and his foreign singers and dancers, and players upon divers instruments, and his great diamond.

Flashed the big diamond there, Flashed as its owner square Treated his soldiers there, Charging a bar-room, while All the "beats" wondered.

It is proposed, in case of attack, to illuminate the Erie Palace by means of Colonel FISK'S big diamond, which, it is estimated, would prove more powerful than a dozen calcium lights.

I wore a watch and chain and a ring set with a good-sized diamond.

"After spending all my money and the proceeds of my watch and diamond, I began to seek employment; but no one would employ a man without recommendations or antecedents.

"At that time he was well dressed and had a watch and diamond ring.

His clothing consisted of a rusty black Prince Albert coat, rusty trousers to match, which were carefully creased, cowhide shoes brilliant with stove polish, a tall silk hat of antiquated design, and a frayed winged collar decorated with a black tie on which sparkled a large diamond attached to a chain.

He was dining vis-à-vis with a young woman chiefly remarkable for a profusion of yellow hair and a blazing diamond in the lobe of each ear,a plump, blond, vivacious person of a type that Stella, even with her limited experience, found herself instantly classifying.

They are always clean; and your rough diamond, though manly and courageous as Coeur de Lion, is not apt to be scrupulously nice in his habits.

Who, like the boasting oak, appear; They think their hands were never made To wield the distaff, plough, or spade; Their taper fingers, soft and fair, Are made to twine their silken hair, Or place upon a brow of snow, Their gold and diamond rings, to show.

" On the 31st, Commissary-general Ireton reports a paper of divers particulars touching the King's body, his George, his diamond, and two seals.

The question being put, that the diamond be sent to Charles Stuart, son of the late King, commonly called Prince of Wales, it passed with the negative.

* DIAMOND MINING IN BRAZIL.

It was in 1729 that the Portuguese government learned of the discovery of the diamond that had been made in the rivers of the environs of Diamantina by some adventurers who had entered this region in search of gold.

As soon as it heard of this discovery, the Portuguese government thought it would make as much profit out of it as possible, so it no longer authorized any other exploitation in the Diamantina regions than that of the diamond, and it imposed upon such exploitation a tax that was fixed at 28 francs per laborer in 1729 and 224 in 1734.

The exploitation of the diamond was farmed out for four years to a contratador, who was to work a certain territory with a number of men, fixed at 600 as a maximum, and to pay into the treasury a sum per workman (whether working or not) that varied from 1,288 francs per year in 1734 to 1,344 francs for the last contract, that ended in 1772.

It is the matrix of the diamond, and the latter is extracted from it by washing.