Diadems

Diadems danced crazily in the light as the image swung, shifting radically, illuminating a larger section of the ledge as the robot was hurled outward into the sea, overhanging the abyss..

Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

Diadems formed the (smaller) birds that adorned it.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

For more than a year after the publication of "Diadems and Faggots" the letters, the inane indiscriminate letters of condemnation, of criticism, of interrogation, had poured in on him by every post.

Full Circle 1909

At last a day came when he read all the letters, from the first word to the last, as he had done when "Diadems and Faggots" appeared.

Full Circle 1909

He did not look like his own idea of the author of "Diadems and Faggots" -- and he wondered why.

Full Circle 1909

Certainly there had been more of a rush when "Diadems and Faggots" came out.

Full Circle 1909

"Diadems and Faggots" was now two years old, and the moment was at hand when its author might have counted on regaining the blessed shelter of oblivion -- if only he had not written another book!

Full Circle 1909

Apthorn was the youngest of the guild, still capable of opinions and the courage of them, a personal friend of Betton's, and, as it happened, the man afterward to become known as the privileged publisher of "Diadems and Faggots."

Full Circle 1909

"Abundance" was neither meeting with the unrestricted welcome of "Diadems and Faggots," nor enjoying the alternative of an animated controversy: it was simply found dull, and its readers said so in language not too tactfully tempered by regretful comparisons with its predecessor.

Full Circle 1909

He had gulped the praise of "Diadems and Faggots" as undiscriminatingly as it was offered; now he knew for the first time the subtler pleasures of the palate.

Full Circle 1909