A few days later this same old priest came in to visit Ali Hafed's successor, and the moment he opened that drawing-room door he saw that flash of light on the mantel, and he rushed up to it, and shouted: ``Here is a diamond! Has Ali Hafed returned?'' ``Oh no, Ali Hafed has not returned, and that is not a diamond. That is nothing but a stone we found right out here in our own garden.'' ``But,'' said the priest, ``I tell you I know a diamond when I see it. I know positively that is a diamond.''英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Said the old priest, ``A diamond is a congealed drop of sunlight.'' Now that is literally scientifically true, that a diamond is an actual deposit of carbon from the sun. The old priest told Ali Hafed that if he had one diamond the size of his thumb he could purchase the county, and if he had a mine of diamonds he could place his children upon thrones through the influence of their great wealth.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
``Diamonds! What do you want with diamonds?'' ``Why, I wish to be immensely rich.'' ``Well, then, go along and find them. That is all you have to do; go and find them, and then you have them.'' ``But I don't know where to go.'' ``Well, if you will find a river that runs through white sands, between high mountains, in those white sands you will always find diamonds.'' ``I don't believe there is any such river.'' ``Oh yes, there are plenty of them. All you have to do is to go and find them, and then you have them.'' Said Ali Hafed, ``I will go.''英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
"It was. He would wear diamond shirt-studs, diamond rings, diamond pins; brilliants, all of the first water. My impression was, that he put them on to dazzle Afy. She told me once that she could be a grander lady, if she chose, than I could ever make her. 'A lady on the cross,' I answered, 'but never on the square.' Thorn was not a man to entertain honest intentions to one in the station of Afy Hallijohn; but girls are simple as geese."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
-- St. San Spirito: a church of the 14th century, in Florence. Ognissanti: i.e., "All Saints", in Florence. I shall have it yet!: I shall make a happy find yet. Detur amanti!: let it be given to the loving one. Koh-i-noor: "Mountain of Light", a celebrated diamond, "the diamond of the great Mogul", presented to Queen Victoria, in 1850. See Art. on the Diamond, `N.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
"You shall do nothing of the kind," cried Phyllis. "I have heaps of lace--more than I shall ever wear. What a lovely idea that is of yours,--I'm sure it is yours,--sewing the diamonds around the cup of the lilies, like dewdrops. I always did like diamonds on lace. Some people would have us believe that diamonds should only be worn with blue velvet. How commonplace! Where have you been to-night?"英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
*Hush, little baby,* *don't say a word.* *Papa's going to buy you a mockingbird.* *And if that mockingbird won't sing,* *papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring.* Papa'd buy ten diamond rings to get that mockingbird to shut the hell up.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Diamond earrings, diamond bracelet, and trips to, let's see now...美剧 · 《Suits》
While Senator Shelby held up Peter Diamond's nomination on the grounds that Diamond was insufficiently qualified美剧 · 《The News Room》