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    adamantine


    1. 13 But as one possessed with an adamantine mind, and as one bringing out again her full number of


    2. But the raven plunges between Simon and himself, the adamantine strength of its wings beating away Duncan’s desperate grasp


    3. 13 But as one possessed with an adamantine mind and as one bringing out again her full number of sons to immortality she rather with supplication exhorted them to death in behalf of religion


    4. Even as he struck, the apparition vanished and his blade clashed deafeningly on the adamantine surface


    5. Yet he found dents on those adamantine bars, like the marks of incredible fangs, and wondered with an involuntary shudder what nameless monsters had so terribly assailed the barriers


    6. You should have patience, adamantine will and untiring persistence


    7. A man must take with him into the world below an adamantine faith in truth and right, that there too he may be undazzled by the desire of wealth or the other allurements of evil, lest, coming upon tyrannies and similar villainies, he do irremediable wrongs to others and suffer yet worse himself; but let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible, not only in this life but in all that which is to come


    8. Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine


    9. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness


    10. Its giant shape filled the foreground, towering high above the masts, grim and gaunt and ghastly, immovable as the adamantine buttresses of a frowning seaboard, while the liner lurched and staggered like a wounded thing in agony as her engines slowly drew her back from the rampart against which she had flung herself

    11. The decrees revoked! The formal statute act of a despot revoked by the breath of his servile Minister; uttered on conditions not performed by Great Britain, and claiming terms not intended to be performed by us! The fatness of our commerce secure, when every wind of heaven is burdened with the sighs of our suffering seamen, and the coast of the whole continent heaped with the plunder of our merchants! The den of the tiger safe! Yet the tracks of those who enter it are innumerable, and not a trace is to be seen of a returning footstep! The den of the tiger safe! While the cry of the mangled victims are heard through the adamantine walls of his cave; cries, which despair and anguish utter, and which despotism itself cannot stifle!


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    Synonyms for "adamantine"

    adamant adamantine inexorable intransigent

    "adamantine" definitions

    consisting of or having the hardness of adamant


    having the hardness of a diamond


    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason