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Definition of Adamants
1. adamant [n] - See also: adamant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adamants
Literary usage of Adamants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in by John Mandeville, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Odorico (1905)
"And if there do, anon the rocks of the adamants draw them to them, that never
they may go thence. I myself have seen afar in that sea, as though it had been ..."
2. A History of Electricity: (The Intellectual Rise in Electricity) from by Park Benjamin (1898)
"Here are two quotations in which the figure changes: " Their hearts like adamants
that will turn no way but to one poynt of heaven."—Never too Late. ..."
3. The Romance of the Peerage: Or Curiosities of Family History by George Lillie Craik (1848)
"Your spy can tell you of all our proceedings, and how much you are honoured in
these parts, where if the adamants were that draw the first place of your ..."
4. Wonderful inventions: from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable by John Timbs (1882)
"... that money had been paid at the same place for twelve stones, called adamants,
or sail-stones, for " repairing divers instruments pertaining to a ship. ..."
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