false diamond

British

noun

any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz

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He was always dressed in a black tail-coat, shiny at the elbows; and he wore a shabby, narrow black tie, with a false diamond stud in his dickey.

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"But I shouldn't think it would be worth your while to keep false diamond rings."

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False diamond set in flint! hard heart in haughty breast!

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Do not trust to feelings, or words, in yourselves or others, look at your life; a real and a false diamond are very much alike, and yet there is all the difference in the world in their value.

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False diamond set in flint! the caverns of the mine Are warmer than the breast that holds that faithless heart of thine; Thou art fickle as the sea, thou art wandering as the wind, And the restless ever-mounting flame is not more hard to bind.

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