adamantine

• “Maybe it's the word adamantine's magnetic lure and”

  Culture Making

• “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.”

  Internet Archive: A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts ..

• “The word 'adamantine' is connected with the Greek adamas, meaning 'unconquerable.”

  The AOXOMOXOA song cycle

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “adamantine" standard, which is absolutely flawless.”

  The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

• “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

• “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

• “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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