"Paint me among dukes and earls with my hat on, to show I am in all things a Republican, and the finest diamond in the Colony shall be yours," he had directed the painter, and this was done.

On the same day, the following paragraph appeared in one of the morning prints: "We understand that our enterprising and intelligent traveller, JOSEPH ATTERLEY, Esquire, has brought from his Lunar Expedition, a diamond of extraordinary size and lustre.

Now that I've got you, there ain't a chain of diamonds on earth I'd turn my wrist for.

Before we left I exchanged one of my diamonds for much goodly merchandise by which I profited greatly on our homeward way.

Of course, he was merely illustrating the value of some scientific experiment, but Robinson thinks, and has made the others think, that the chest contains something to make diamonds with.

"I've told you," I said desperately; "can't you seethat queen isn't free?" SwiftlyI regret to say, almost with a show of tempershe snatched the four of diamonds from its lawful place and laid it brazenly far outside the game.

The old man, with the hayseed in his hair, and the stains of bitumen upon his gnarled hands, ate and drank of the best, seeing a glorified vision of his Lily crowned with diamonds at last.

She meant to take the gold and some of the diamonds to her lawyer and get a check which would take her and mother around the world on a luxurious cruise.

Should he refuse, it will be my melancholy duty to cleave the diamond into a number of smaller stones, as it is too large for my use.

Thus much Elzevir explained to me afterwards, but at that time when that pretender spoke of the diamond as being his own, Elzevir cut in and said in open court that 'twas a lie, and that this precious stone was none other than the one that we had offered in the afternoon, when Aldobrand had said 'twas glass.

"Yes, but" "That's when he slipped the six of diamonds out of sight and exposed the deuce of spades.

Every blade of grass was gemmed with dew, sparkling through the yellow glory of dawn like diamonds through a primrose veil.

Then together they rushed to the garden and stirred up the white sands with their fingers and found others more beautiful, more valuable diamonds than the first, and thus, said the guide to me, were discovered the diamond mines of Golconda, the most magnificent diamond mines in all the history of mankind, exceeding the Kimberley in its value.

Inside were small jewelry cases, and each contained a beautiful stickpin of gold, holding a ruby with three small diamonds around it.

In sum, he is a diamond among jewels, a phrenix among birds, an unicorn among beasts, and a saint among men.

They had punished him for robbing them of the diamonds by robbing him of his life.

" "And it may do some hurtto you," muttered Diamond under his breath.

He must have Mr. Knopf's diamonds about him at this moment.'

Nearly all the guests were extremely wealthy, most of them were powerful, either in the region of politics or finance; and the fashionable world was represented by some beautiful women with dresses and diamonds above reproach, and some young men whose names stood high at Hurlingham and Prinses.

give me the treasure!' I held the diamond between finger and thumb of my right hand, and waved it for Elzevir to see.

The applicant was standing before him now, with her head held high and her blue eyes flashed like diamonds over his shameful proposition.

In vases of agate were heaped diamonds beyond enumeration, the smallest of which was larger than a pigeon's egg.

And that he was moved to do this, first, by the consideration that he, Aldobrand, had no children to whom to leave aught, and second, because he desired to make full and fitting restitution to John Trenchard, for that he had once obtained from the said John a diamond without paying the proper price for it.

The pirates now divided their plunder, receiving forty-two diamonds per man, or in smaller proportion according to their magnitude.

The full orbed moon arose in the east, and the crystal streams reflected myriads of diamonds beneath her silver beams, and the stars, those golden lamps of night, shone bright in the blue chambers of the sky.