adamant
Definition: (adj) too hard to break; uncompromising in opinion... (n) any substance of exceeding hardness
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Gulliver's Travels - By Jonathan Swift, Ernest Bernbaum
...yards in diameter, from whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called Flandona Gagnole, or the Astronomer 's Cave, situated at the depth of an hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the adamant ....
History of Prose Fiction - By John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson
...When all his crew had been thus disposed of, Ogier landed and directed his steps to a castle of adamant, which, though invisible during day, shone by night with miraculous splendor ....
Hard Times - By Charles Dickens
...Utterly heedless of the wear and tear of her clothes and constitution, and adamant to her pathetic sneezes, Mr. Bounderby immediately crammed her into a coach, and bore her off to Stone Lodge . "...
The House of Mirth - By Edith Wharton, Albert Beck Wenzell
...And now, though it seemed slighter and frailer than ever, it had suddenly hardened to adamant, and he might beat his life out against it in vain ....
Don Quixote - By Ronald D. K. Storer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...I am inolined to think, however, that he is wrong, and that what Cervantes meant was not a diamond-studded throne, but an adamant pillar, a trophy in faot ....
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - By Anne Bront
...she cried, in a tone that would have pierced a heart of adamant . '...
The Warden - By Anthony Trollope
...He was as a man bound with iron, fettered with adamant : he was in no respect a free agent; he had no choice . "...
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - By Washington Irving
...enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easib conquered adversaries, to contend with; an -LRB- had to make his way merely through gates o iron and brass, and walls of adamant, to tin castle keep, where the lady of his heart wa confined; all which he achieved as easily as; man would carve his way to the center of; Christmas pie, and then the lady gave hin her hand as a matter of course ....
The Vicar of Wakefield - By Oliver Goldsmith
...-- `` Why, then, my child, come to my arms again : and now you are a thousand times more welcome than before; for you are now his wife to all intents and purposes; nor can all the laws20 of man, though written upon tables of adamant, lessen the force of that sacred connection . "...
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - By Laurence Sterne, John Hall-Stevenson
...We are not adamant, faidl, taking hold of her hand--and there is need of all reftraints, till age in her own time fteals in and lays them on us--but, my dear lady, faid I, kifiing her hand--` tis too--too foon--I declare I had the credit all over Paris of unperverting Madame de V \*\*\* ....
Essays - By Ralph Waldo Emerson
...The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again ....