diamond dust

Historical Examples

• How her shining hair glitters, as if sprinkled with diamond-dust.

  Floyd Grandon's Honor

  Amanda Minnie Douglas

• In the middle of dinner, it exploded like a cracker, and went literally into diamond-dust.

  A Simpleton

  Charles Reade

• With a curse he hurled it into diamond-dust against the bulwarks.

  Caybigan

  James Hopper

• The lapidary cuts them with a steel wheel, about eight inches in diameter, using oil and diamond-dust in cutting and polishing.

  Three Years on the Plains

  Edmund B. Tuttle

• Whether it was diamond-dust or Achmet's thin thong that stopped the breath, it mattered not; it was sure.

  The Weavers, Complete

  Gilbert Parker