She conducted her existence in the narrow space between the adamant wall of the things she had always done, always eaten, and always worn, and the adamant wall of the things she had never done, never eaten, and never worn.
He found a man of adamant and iron, one blind and deaf to political logic, one who scorned all persuasion and in whose lexicon there was no such word as expediency.
When he had hanged this adamant in a cord, he comes back, and gives fire to the touchhole: now the powder consumed to a void vacuum-- HEU.
But the military commander remained adamantuntil orders arrived from King Albert consenting to the surrender of the city.
High winds and fog hampered the operations to a considerable extent, but the purpose of the Allies under Vice-Admiral Carden was adamant and would not be denied.
If an adamant be set by iron, it suffereth not the iron to come to the magnet, but it draweth it by a manner of violence from the magnet, so that though the magnet draweth iron to itself, the adamant draweth it away from the magnet.
Through nostrils fenc'd with adamanthot flames: Parch'd by their breath, the herbage blacken'd burns.
Measuring in her folly things divine By human; laws inscribed on adamant By laws of man's device; and counsels fix'd For ever, by the hours that pass and die.
The gods love verse; the infernal pow'rs themselves Confess the influence of verse, which stirs The lowest deep, and binds in triple chains Of adamantboth Pluto and the shades.
The gods love verse; the infernal powers themselves Confess the influence of verse, which stirs The lowest deep, and binds in triple chains Of adamant both Pluto and the shades.
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
I have made thy face like an adamantand like flint: fear them not, neither be thou dismayed at their presence: for they are a provoking house.
And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from Lord of hosts.
Beaten, we shake in vain theadamant gates of a brazen iniquity; we may bruise our breasts there till we die; there is no entrance possible.
He would have pleaded by it; she refused to acknowledge it, and remained as adamant before it.
And as an adamant cannot be broken, so love cannot be overcome: for love is as strong as death.
On the hardest adamantsome footprint of us is stamped-in; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van.
For myself in these days, I seem to see in this indestructibility of Hero-worship the everlasting adamantlower than which the confused wreck of revolutionary things cannot fall.
If the girl had been willful before, she was adamant now.
Against such an adamantcombine of power and of will-force determined and arrogant, Caroline knew herself a mere nothing, and she wisely withheld a protest she realized hopeless.
With equal hope he might attempt to bind In chains of adamantthe lawless wind; For love had aim'd the fatal shaft too sure, Hope fed the wound, and absence knew no cure.
Between the rivers yet nearer to that of Phlegethon there juts a tower stiff with solid adamant that bathes its left side in the flames; its right hand wall extends into Cocytus’ stream and echoes the lamentation of the river of tears.
He therefore brought her to Delos, a floating island in the Ægean Sea, which he made stationary by attaching it with chains of adamant to the bottom of the sea.
Though the earth ofadamant were unyielding, the heaven of brass might give way!
When it was over, he shrugged his shoulders, wrote his magnificent Apology with a style of adamant upon a plate of steel, and left it for the outlaws of Filippo Strozzi's faction to deal with the crisis he had brought about.
