It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds."
"No, it was only pleasure," said the young man, his eyes like black diamonds.
With that our "black diamonds" were in safety for the time being.
This will give you a pattern of black diamonds on a red ground.
Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell had laid in fifteen tons of black diamonds.
Of the face he saw only a narrow slit between her handkerchief and hat-brim, amid which her eyes gleamed like black diamonds.
To the black diamonds of her coal-fields Australia will owe more of her future progress than to her auriferous products.
In his anxiety to avoid the coal man, Ned did not notice an open hole down which the black diamonds were being shoveled.
But Bertie rose to his feet, and his eyes glittered in his pale face like black diamonds with a hundred facets.
Sunshine came through the roof of the shed and burned the cinders like black diamonds.
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