Scientists believe that diamonds ascend to the earth's surface in rare molten rock, or magma that originates at great depths. |
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She was treated with particular savagery by cartoonists, who represented her as ugly, overdressed, over-fecund and avid for diamonds and pearls. |
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It was his watch, the entire band and face were studded with what looked like diamonds! |
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He figured out that North must have had plenty of strength in both majors, and a singleton or even a void in diamonds. |
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Because of the difference in score, clubs and diamonds are called the minor suits and hearts and spades are the major suits. |
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A ludicrously ornate 1699 ostensory, 1m high, weighing over 12kg and studded with more than 6,000 diamonds. |
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They mine diamonds in a shaft, the entrance to which is inside their house. |
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Come visit our store for diamonds, colour stones, maple leaf coins, pearls, engagement rings, wedding rings, repairs, toreutics and many others! |
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The pearl strands that are stringed by American diamonds were yet another collection that seemed popular with visitors. |
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Her hair was pulled back into a bun, and teardrop diamonds also adorned her hair. |
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Personally, I can't tell the difference between diamonds and bits of clear broken glass! |
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The kings of diamonds are the highest trumps instead of the tens of hearts. |
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Baguette Cut is one of the earliest and simplest cuts employed to give diamonds their perfect shapes. |
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The mounting has 8 channel-set half way around horizontal baguette cut diamonds. |
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The Ballerina setting consists of center stone that is surrounded by a series of diamonds that are cut in a tapered Baguette style. |
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Her hair was caught back in a great net of silver, also dotted with diamonds. |
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This impressive ladies' ring features a combination of alternating princess cut and baguette cut genuine white diamonds. |
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The shining diamonds, rubies, emeralds, peridots, topaz, sapphires have now acquired a special status for the wearer. |
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The Ganjam Pallette Line uses the luxurious platinum in an unusual and unexpected treatment with onyx, peridots and blue topaz besides diamonds. |
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The classic order of suits is hearts above diamonds, and spades above clubs. |
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As for the vital stats of the bauble, it is bejewelled with 8,000 diamonds weighing 200 karats, set in over a kilo of 18-karat pink gold. |
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The diamonds were mounted on various items of gold and platinum jewellery, including rings, watches, bangles and necklaces. |
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The diamonds have been set close to each other to give them a solitaire look. |
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That is because mined diamonds are a carbon gem material and synthetic diamonds are polycrystalline. |
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Synthetic zircon is used to make gemstones that resemble fine diamonds and as a refractory material in foundry molds and furnace linings. |
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For example, playing the queen of hearts indicates to your partner that you have a strong diamonds. |
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Our economy is driven by diamonds, base metals, a little bit of precious metals, a few other commodities, fish, beef and tourism. |
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Bracelets, belt buckles, and tiepins with gold and diamonds, are worn by some bridegrooms. |
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She also wore a tiara in her hair designed by Carl Faberge in the style of a laurel wreath, set with cushion shaped diamonds. |
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She was clothed in flowing gown of silver, a matching shade to the streaks in her hair, and a tiara of diamonds and glistening jewels. |
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In the case of diamonds, colour actually refers to the stone's lack of colour. |
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Several players who subsequently moved on have discovered that their baubles contained imitation zirconia stones rather than genuine diamonds. |
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There are three peridot stones, arranged in a triangle, with tiny little diamonds adorning it. |
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Hillary could get cartloads of Cartiers and diamonds from De Beers too, if she were to let her standards slip. |
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Dru World Order is the ideal soundtrack for sipping Cristal, polishing your diamonds or making sweet love to your old lady. |
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Heaney and Vicenzi both work with rare diamonds known as carbonados, which are found only in Brazil and central Africa. |
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When he interviewed me I was wearing a white blouse, a grey suit, high heels, and some thin hair clips studded with diamonds. |
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A huge workforce, in the region of a million today, handles this massive volume of diamonds. |
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That vig you pay may as well be diamonds and fur coats given to another woman. |
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Her gown was black, spangled with diamonds, giving it the appearance of the sky on a clear night. |
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The firelight caught the cut of the diamonds and they sparkled against the burgundy velvet. |
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Take out of the deck three clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades for every player. |
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The trump suit is clubs if all three succeeded, hearts if two, spades if one or diamonds if no-one fulfilled their contract. |
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Besides diamonds, other forms of carbon found in nature include charcoal, coal, and soot. |
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Glenn had steered her away from the traditional solitaires and selected an estate piece, a huge opal surrounded by diamonds. |
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I untied the red ribbon that bound the black box and excitedly opened the lid to find a gorgeous strand of delicate, white diamonds. |
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Polishers, setters and a goldsmith all work here on view, and more than 2,500 pieces of diamond jewellery and unset diamonds are displayed. |
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The risks may be high, but the continent is rich in natural resources including oil, gold and diamonds. |
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Her mother was sparkling in a slim gown fitted with diamonds to resemble the sky. |
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Both ladies were wearing slim gold circlets studded with diamonds, which marked them as princesses. |
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Before them was a pile of gold bars, a pile of rubies, and a pile of uncut diamonds. |
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Abel Herzberg was the son of a broker of uncut diamonds and grew up in Amsterdam. |
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Jada would stoop over after he stormed out and pick up the sparkling pieces, jagged like uncut diamonds. |
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Well, if this is blood money from stolen diamonds, I guess I can see the president's point. |
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But what these villages don't know or can't afford to worry about is that these are blood diamonds or conflict diamonds. |
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She was wearing a leopard-skin top, beautifully offset by a cluster of diamonds. |
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The V for Victoria is picked out in diamonds, R for Regina in pearls and I for Imperatrix in turquoises. |
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His watch was large and methodical, and on the outer case two hearts were picked out in diamonds from the dark solid gold. |
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Wildlife smuggling in Nepal is what blood diamonds are to Sierra Leone, or the Ivory Coast. |
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Corruption, bribery and skulduggery in trading blood diamonds for guns and grenades causes the death of millions of innocents. |
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It is impossible to say how many blood diamonds will end up under Christmas trees this year. |
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People buying diamonds as gifts for Valentine's Day might be buying 'blood diamonds' and fuelling armed conflict. |
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The year has been a good one for the diamond industry, and there has been a marked acceptability of branded diamonds. |
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Conflicts have raged for decades fuelled by illegal foreign arms imports and blood diamonds. |
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The blind fret carving on the chest-on-chest illustrated here forms an interlaced pattern of alternating quatrefoils and diamonds. |
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Note that all the queens, including diamonds, also carry their normal 3 points, which cannot be annulled. |
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He picked up his cards, finding the ace of diamonds he tossed it on the pile. |
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I started with the queen of diamonds and spades, an ace of clubs, five of hearts and three of diamonds. |
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Many diamonds are fluorescent and phosphorescent under ultraviolet radiation. |
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Christopher set down his cards, exposing a three, five, and ten of spades and the ace of diamonds. |
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Still, twenty thousand pounds in diamonds, in a box easily come-at-able, sealed with the French Syndic's seal, was worth having. |
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As well as gold and diamonds, the region is a source of the rare mineral coltan used in mobile phones. |
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It was the later French adaptation which changed swords to spades, wands to clubs, cups to hearts, and coins to diamonds. |
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He plays a high-stakes burglar who lifts the diamonds and then gets hoodwinked by a rival gang. |
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It's a light purple, almost a periwinkle, sleeveless, and with little diamonds all over. |
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The women were all in sequins and diamonds and they smoked cigarettes and had raspy voices and husky laughs. |
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The ring came out then, one and a quarter karats of diamonds set in fourteen carat gold. |
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It was composed of a precious pink sapphire of 20.35 carats, several sapphires, colourful diamonds and natural pearls. |
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Made of white gold and diamonds, the tiara is shaped like two bridges to fit across the bride's forehead. |
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Europeans and Africans are going deeper into the forest to dig for gold and diamonds. |
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She told us very early on that we were all diamonds in the raw and that we needed refining. |
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The dress code is white tie and diamonds, so the Beckhams will have a chance to show off a few of their prized rocks. |
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Though she is not crazy about diamonds, she feels they go well with platinum. |
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The windows around wink and flash in cryptograms, a galactic console of messages coded in light, in diamonds and topazes and amber. |
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If you are a family of 3, this necklace is a row of three diamonds, with the main stone peridot, in case you want some number symbolism. |
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Besides gold and diamonds, the area is rich in copper, uranium, palladium and cobalt, as well as coltan ore. |
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These jewelry settings are common when it comes to diamonds or other gemstones. |
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Other slaves cut and shaped the amethysts, topazes, emeralds, and diamonds that often filled the gold and silver settings. |
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Gemstone settings are basically any setting with a combination of diamonds and other precious stones. |
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As my predicted recovery of the American economy gets speed, the world will buy more of our diamonds, gold, copper and uranium again. |
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The collection has rings, earrings, pendants and necklaces exclusively handcrafted and studded with best quality diamonds for every occasion. |
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Two celery glasses made for them have the same pelican imagery engraved above a wide band of diamonds and diagonal blaze cuts. |
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He stated that the diamonds were all legitimate and were being cleared through the Customs and the Belgian diamond centre. |
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Missy glanced at her wristwatch with diamonds outlining the round, white gold face and the snakeskin band. |
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They say the rebels used slaves to extract vast quantities of so-called blood diamonds, which were sold for weapons. |
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Purchase recommendations from all of the major financial houses bejewel the company's stock like diamonds. |
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It was a clear night, no clouds to release any surprise showers, just stars dotting the navy sky like diamonds. |
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Beautiful silver earrings hang from the points of her ears, encrusted by black diamonds and deep purple amethysts. |
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Green gems were predominant here, but other colors sparkled here and there, rubies, amethysts, diamonds and the like. |
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They vary from simple patterns, such as alternating checks, triangles, or diamonds, to complex combined motifs. |
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She left behind 15 mink coats, six silver fox stoles, a dress studded with diamonds, a bullet-proof bra and 2,800 pairs of her coveted shoes. |
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There are also some natural diamonds which have undergone treatments to reduce their blemishes, thus enhancing their appearance. |
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In order to mine the deep pipes in which diamonds were found, capital, technology, and control of water were all-important. |
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Dew glistened in the grass on the side of the road like little twinkling diamonds in the rough. |
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You look at those tempting black diamonds, so colourfully named and think, hey, they don't look so difficult. |
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Her black dress, shining from some silver silk material with black diamonds sewn into the hems and lines, contrasted with her washed-pale skin. |
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The three women, aged between 27 and 36, were all arrested for the attempted theft of diamonds from display showcases. |
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Cut glass, rhinestones, and cubic zirconium are all attempts to replicate the beauty of diamonds at a lower cost. |
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Yet we don't count up two diamonds from the deuce and two from the trey, but treat each card as a complete unity. |
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Long, golden tresses flowed down past her waist, delicate diamonds and jewels strung between each strand. |
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The 18-carat gold watch encrusted with 400 diamonds is part of the Rado travelling exhibition. |
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Dazzling diamonds studded on rhodium plated gold jewellery are the most popular jewellery pieces. |
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The Queen of spades and the Jack of diamonds is the bezique. Simple bezique values in 40 points. Double bezique values in 500 points. |
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Bezique is the queen of spades and knave of diamonds, for which the holder scores 40 points. |
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The country is also blessed with plenty of precious minerals such as diamonds, gold, emeralds, amethyst which are all waiting to be exploited. |
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The agricultural sector of Angola has many more opportunities than mining diamonds. |
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On her neck she wore a gold necklace of diamonds and she wore rings on her fingers. |
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She took the necklace in her hand and stared hungrily at the diamonds, rubies, and onyx stones. |
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Meanwhile, Laure's accomplice employs a switcheroo, replacing the diamonds with paste-and-glass. |
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And since all mined diamonds have inclusions, flaws, and birthmarks, under magnification a trained jeweler can tell the difference. |
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Also on display are stringed natural pearls and chains with lockets that have American diamonds laid on silver plated with gold. |
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Well, they were kind of picked over, but I found some diamonds in the rough. |
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A golden circlet crowned his head with four perfect diamonds that sat with equal spacing in it. |
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The European Commission last week adopted a scheme to monitor the import of rough diamonds into the European Union. |
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The roadmap includes a series of focused expert meetings to develop the proposed international certification scheme for rough diamonds. |
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The domestic diamond industry may soon get rough diamonds directly from African countries. |
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The maximum increase in exports was in the category of rough diamonds and gold jewellery, a Council release said. |
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A statement issued this week said LKI will purchase rough diamonds and supervise the manufacturing of those deemed suitable to cut and polish. |
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It trades 85 per cent of the world's production in rough diamonds and 55 per cent of the polished ones. |
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The higher demand for rough diamonds stems from the decline in the stock of polished diamonds at cutting centres. |
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The Indian gem industry cuts and polishes 60 per cent of world's rough diamonds by value and 80 per cent of rough diamonds by volume. |
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They twinkled like diamonds in the pale moonlight that came through the kitchen window, and lit up when she smiled. |
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One worker at the same site stole diamonds by tying a small bag to a homing pigeon, which would fly the diamonds back to his house. |
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Under the scheme diamond producer countries would control the production and transport of rough diamonds from the mine to the point of export. |
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Russia will supply 30,000 carats of rough diamonds for jewellery and 1 million carats of technical diamonds. |
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While some petroleum and big diamond projects potentially generate huge royalties, most mines, diamonds and gold included, simply do not. |
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Dad will first take the two tickets and look them over like a valuator inspecting diamonds. |
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It is estimated that mineable diamonds in the MDM concessions stand at 12 million carats. |
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Some of their pieces are made of plain white gold, while others are embellished with diamonds, sapphires, rubies or pearls. |
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The hardest stones, such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, are normally cut and polished and mounted as jewellery. |
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Cascades of earls, rubies, sapphires, diamonds and tortoiseshell hatpins, 76 items in all, poured out. |
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Gemstones such as diamonds, opals, sapphires, and rubies are produced in Brazil. |
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By treasure, we are not talking about chests containing gold, silver and diamonds. |
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Henry VIII was fond of wearing a velvet, gold-embroidered purple doublet encrusted with diamonds, rubies and pearls. |
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Gemstones such as diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires are rarely drilled to make beads as this detracts from their worth. |
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They are generally in blue, green, white or occasionally amethyst glass, and are often cut with shallow, concave hollow diamonds. |
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Therefore the ace of diamonds is the lowest card of its suit when diamonds are not trumps. |
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It's a gold necklace with a gold charm shaped like an ice skate, with a cross of blue topaz and diamonds embedded into the skate. |
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It had a villain, Amjad Khan, who was trying to recover some diamonds he had stolen and then lost sight of. |
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Only diamonds and cubic boron nitride are harder than boron suboxide, which appears to have promising potential. |
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In others, repeated square shapes mutate into stretched diamonds, triangles and irregular ovals. |
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The yard goods usually had small-scale repeat patterning, often a simple diamond grid, a mixture of thin stripes and diamonds, or small lozenges. |
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Cut the aubergine and courgettes into neat 1.5cm cubes or diamonds with skins on, for the colour. |
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She stared at it, her fingers tracing the indents were small crystal diamonds filled the interior lining. |
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Phillip Arnold and John Slack salted a mine under claim to Stanton in Wyoming with uncut diamonds from South Africa. |
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Informal and unrecorded exports of gold and diamonds produce the same outcome, and are particularly damaging if the gold or the uncut diamonds were imported into the country. |
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But the truth is the Seacrests, the Bergerons, and the Deeleys are the personable, breezy diamonds in the awkward, robotic rough. |
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The engineering school dropout had sold corned beef to Africa and brokered some Brazilian diamonds with mixed success. |
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De Niro's performance communicates his longing for normalcy so well that the movie doesn't need Bassett as the moral balance who tells him to quit jacking diamonds. |
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One recent day, search crews found an ace of diamonds playing card, a doorknob, a pair of security guard pants, a woman's black wig and a pink toothbrush. |
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The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb. |
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He has his diamonds and ankle weights on and he's going for a jog. |
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This night couldn't get any better if it rained rubies and diamonds. |
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It was of the same color and material as the robe she wore previously, and the gold chain still dangled at her waist, diamonds winking and shining brighter than ever. |
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They were not very varied in design and the emphasis was on good luck charms such as four-leaf clovers, horseshoes and wishbones, again set with tiny diamonds. |
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The diamonds flashed fire as I turned to the mirror, and the heavy beaten gold burned like a halo about my head. |
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The diamonds feature people with wrapped faces and wrapped bodies while the clubs have amputated and dismembered bodies. |
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Covered partly by a pillow and decked out in diamonds, it comes as no surprise that Cyrus has stripped down. |
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To this C reneges his 5 and plays the 8 of diamonds instead. |
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The miniature is framed by a row of thirty large rose-cut diamonds and surrounded by a design of vine scrolls and bunches of grapes in cobalt blue champleve enamel. |
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The most expensive were composed of a carved hardstone mounted in gold, with or without enameling, and with push-pieces of moonstone or sapphires bordered by rose diamonds. |
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Because it was such a nasty case and because, as I put it, they are rough diamonds, one had to be very careful in relation to the law and applying it. |
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He said the polished diamonds will be Namibian unlike other diamond cutting factories in the country that cut rough diamonds from other countries. |
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With revenue from the illegal mining and sale of rough diamonds, the rebels have been able to purchase and stockpile ammunition to prolong the war. |
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The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds. |
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The expo is showcasing some of the exquisite creations in gold, platinum and silver jewellery that are studded with gems, sapphire, diamonds, rubies and pearls. |
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Uncut diamonds, rubies, bangles and small necklaces are on display here. |
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Pearls, diamonds, emeralds and rubies have remained important. |
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White gloves that were studded with diamonds hung on the hanger beside it. |
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Pearl earrings accented with diamonds, sapphires, or rubies. |
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Although on table 1 our North-South pair defeated West's 5 diamonds, on table 2 with the same cards our East-West pair allowed North to play and make 4 hearts. |
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, who appeared, nine months pregnant in a simple black sheath, avoided diamonds altogether, opting instead for teardrop earrings of pink and jet stones. |
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There are four tapered baguette diamonds set in two prong heads. |
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On the second voyage, Sindbad is marooned on an island, but with the help of a giant bird, he is able to collect many diamonds before returning home. |
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Deep within Earth, some diamonds come into contact with radioactive materials, such as thorium or uranium, that can impart a unique signature known as a radiation halo. |
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Vast quantities of gold, diamonds and other minerals have been stolen by protagonists of this war, which as a result has become self-perpetuating. |
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Nicole Kidman chose a Chanel pink-chiffon, spaghetti-strap gown with tiers of ruffles running down the bodice, and 200 carats of raw Bulgari diamonds wrapped around her neck. |
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The Kimberley Process for tracking conflict diamonds officially suspended CAR one year ago. |
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With a beatific smile, Weldon rose above the ensuing stushie and laughed all the way to the bank, proving once again that diamonds are a girl's best friend. |
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Her jewelry sparkles with diamonds and tanzanite, the color of the vision chakra, part red, part blue. |
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Commentators failed to agree on whether her dress was the work of Dior or the Lebanese designer Elie Saab, whose trademark is to bespeckle his dresses with diamonds. |
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During the absence of the moon the blue-black vault appears like a robe of imperial purple, besprent with innumerable diamonds of a lustre unknown to earth's feeble gems. |
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Canadian diamonds are mined in the Northwest Territories, and this is one alternative to ensure that your diamond purchase does not support conflict. |
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Numerous examples can be found, from trigonal hillocks on diamonds to pits and highly irregular surfaces on crystals that we are accustomed to seeing in simple planar forms. |
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The threshold of the door was decorated with gold and silver, while the russet, wood door was trimmed with diamonds along the small sliver of crystal window. |
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Gems and birthstones are becoming more popular, as are styles such as solitaire diamonds, cluster rings and diamond set rings with small stones or gems set on either side. |
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Some celebrities have stayed at Claridges for the last couple of nights, where they have been busying themselves trying new hairstyles, make-up, diamonds and outfits. |
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They are beginning to consider whether they should start a fashion for black wedding gowns, having very successfully set a fashion for black diamonds a few years ago. |
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I'll have you skiing the black diamonds with ease at the end of the break. |
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Hence, these volcanic pipes are found to have diamonds in them. |
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In addition to such specimens as moon rocks and a meteorite studded with tiny diamonds, the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites contains the Cape York Meteorite. |
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I mean, the white blonde hair and the silver fox and the diamonds. |
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Firms in Antwerp, capital of the diamond buying industry, were heavily involved, reportedly arranging shipments of blood diamonds to be sent to India. |
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The thief smiled at the small mound of diamonds piled inside. |
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The auction catalog described the ring as being an emerald-cut diamond of approximately 9.10 carats on a platinum mount, flanked by two baguette diamonds. |
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The world's biggest diamond producer also put in place last year, a marketing channel, which sells uncut, diamonds only to selected and approved polishers. |
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Recent developments in nanotechnology have produced the aggregated diamond nanorod, an artificial diamond that's harder than any natural diamonds. |
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At her neck, she wore a sliver Y-shaped necklace studded in faux diamonds. |
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It was of soft leather, and about eight inches wide, sewed lengthways and breadthways in small squares, in which, I presumed the diamonds were deposited. |
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On top of the white velvet lining lay a delicate circlet of diamonds. |
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Long or dangling earrings with diamonds and vibrantly coloured stones, bracelets and studs complete the new line of formal and semi-formal jewellery. |
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Martin is a true admirer of diamonds, and because of it, the book is cut a bit like the precious stone itself. |
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He famously gave Queen Elizabeth II a collection of lesser diamonds from his jewelry cache as a prenuptial gift. |
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The natural camouflage often found on the bodies of snakes is shown through the use of painted diamonds and triangles that appear throughout the length of the body. |
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It includes vast deposits of coal, limestone, slabs, oil and natural gas, manganese, asbestos, iron ore, gold, diamonds, graphite, tungsten, steatitic, feldspar, and silica. |
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I should stock up one jade, rubies, onyx, malachite, and diamonds. |
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On these, no neck rings interrupt the sweep of prism cuts from lip to shoulder, and the octagons contain only alternating sunbursts and sharp diamonds. |
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Within it, there are gems, rubies, pearls and flawless diamonds. |
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The shoes are encrusted with more than 400 round and pear-shaped diamonds. |
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Before they became moguls, the men who made Hollywood had been clothiers, merchants, traders in diamonds and fox stoles, yard-goods and dry-goods salesmen. |
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He had an ace and king of clubs, which meant I needed diamonds or tens. |
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She was in Kochi on Monday to inaugurate an exhibition of diamonds. |
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Today's declarer took the ace of diamonds and led a trump to the king and another trump. |
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New York's largest imports are oil, gold, aluminum, natural gas, electricity, rough diamonds, and lumber. |
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She had diamonds glittering from her earlobes and had bright scarlet nails that matched the bold hue of her trousers. |
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In 1939 she absconded her bail in Melbourne and went to New Zealand, where she also absconded on a charge of stealing diamonds. |
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Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds. |
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New York exports a wide variety of goods such as prepared foods, computers and electronics, cut diamonds, and other commodities. |
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Yakutsk is responsible for a fifth of the world's production of diamonds, and is home to ALROSA and other mining companies. |
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In the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones. |
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Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king's ransom of diamonds. |
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The textile of plain weave is represented by a wide variety of stripes, and more rarely by geometrical patterns such as triangles and diamonds. |
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Gossip columnist RONA Barrett wore a terry beach robe and diamonds. |
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First results available from the Ouassat permit, show the presence of diamonds and kimberlitic pyropes with sub-kelyphitic surface texture. |
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Industrial diamonds are used in various manufacturing processes and for various industrial purposes. |
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The report presents a thorough study of industrial diamonds, covering both global and regional markets. |
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League officials envision baseball diamonds with real pitching mounds and grassy infields where Castaic's first school once stood. |
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Though rich in diamonds, it has historically struggled to manage their exploitation and export. |
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Mining of diamonds in the east and other minerals expanded, drawing labourers there from other parts of the country. |
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Sierra Leone has relied on mining, especially diamonds, for its economic base. |
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Grand Prince Boris of Tver sent one of his men, Afanasy Nikitin, to search for gold and diamonds as far as India. |
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He lifted the Jesus piece, the Hebrew star of David, and the star and the crescent that were all dripping with diamonds. |
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Using flora and fauna motifs, the young designer dabbled in precious stones like diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, sapphires and citrines. |
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The holdings in spades and diamonds however are such that you would prefer the lead to come up to your hand, not through it. |
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The soil contains large reserves of oil, gas, coal, diamonds, gold, silver, tin, tungsten and many others. |
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The Date Astrale has an off-centered subdial at 2 o'clock and its watch face blends mother-of-pearl and diamonds, mounted on the horns and bezel. |
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Most importantly however, diamonds remain one of the main obstacles to real peace between UNITA and the MPLA Government. |
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The crown is a yellow songkok with a broad band of gold studded with small diamonds and brilliants and having a white plume in front. |
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The discovery of diamonds in 1867 and gold in 1884 in the interior started the Mineral Revolution and increased economic growth and immigration. |
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He became interested in the possibility of creating artificial diamonds while working with carbon arc lamps. |
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It's gold plated which has three diamonds for headlights and three rubies for tail lights. |
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At the other tables, Lady Billingham made five diamonds exactly, but both Commons pairs cautiously stopped in partscores. |
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Fillet the sewin, cut into large diamonds, toss in seasoned flour and saut in olive oil and remove, keep warm. |
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Also stolen were distinctive boxing gloves and kit and an Omega Seamaster watch with diamonds around the face. |
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Since the conflict in Sierra Leone, diamond-producing countries have pulled together to end the trade of blood diamonds. |
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A dark facet of diamonds has been illuminated in the film Blood Diamond starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou. |
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Through news reports and the film Blood Diamond most people are aware of the trade in diamonds in order to support military conflict. |
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All of the diamonds are white or brown octahedra or macles and fragments of octahedra which do not show extensive resorption. |
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It could be unmined gold, so-called rare metals, or coloured diamonds, all of which have been flogged by sharks in recent months. |
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Antwerp manufacturers now concentrate on the larger stones and the flat, usually triangular twinned diamonds called macles. |
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Declarer eventually lost one heart, two diamonds and the club overruff for plus 110 to win the board and leapfrog his team from third to second. |
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As for the 36-year-old's hairdo, the starlet went for a classic updo, natural makeup and sparkling diamonds on the neck. |
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With her hair in a vintage updo with soft ringlets, the diva was seen in chunky jewellery set in diamonds, gold, pearls, emeralds and rubies. |
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During that time, the city was the leading centre for finance and diamonds. |
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Blue diamonds are structurally the purest of all diamonds, with barely any impurities within their crystal lattice. |
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Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. |
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The illustrations include two pictures of gunmetal cases set with rose diamonds. |
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North opens one club and East overcalls two clubs, showing spades and diamonds. |
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But in the stem of this elegant thing, as small as a lorgnette, tiny rose diamonds sparkled sprightly today as they did a century ago. |
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Its main exports are machinery and equipment, chemicals, finished diamonds, metals and metal products, and foodstuffs. |
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And if pea-green jade, carved in the form of a pea and set with rose diamonds is your kind of thing, you need look no further. |
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For the previous two centuries, the emphasis in fine jewelry had been creating dramatic settings for diamonds. |
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England's Tudor rose, made from gold and silver bullion and rose diamonds, is on the sleeves. |
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These particular beauties are in blue-black or powder-blue enamel set in solid gold cage-work mounts with the Czar's cipher in rose diamonds. |
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At match pointed pairs, you should play for the overtrick by laying down the ace of diamonds, hoping for a singleton king. |
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For example, the Luca Carati Plie pendant appears to be an ovoid encrusted in diamonds at first sight. |
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Some pieces in the collection also use topaz, rhodolite and icy diamonds set in silver, bringing affordability to a new wider customer base. |
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Let's say you're holding the Queen and Jack of spades and the flop shows the King of diamonds, 10 of hearts and seven of clubs. |
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I have lot of outs, but the river is a seven of hearts and Eliza has a ten of diamonds and jack of spades. |
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I recall particularly Catherine the Great's saddle-cloth, edged entirely with swags of rose diamonds. |
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During the reign of Art Nouveau, diamonds usually played a supporting role. |
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I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest. |
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In his twenties he tried to create diamonds by heating graphite and shorted out Glasgow's electricity supply. |
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Those declarers that went down won the spade and immediately finessed in diamonds. |
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LifeGem created diamonds are recognized as authentic by the world's foremost gemologists trained by the Gemological Institute of America. |
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The young Scot turned over the ace of diamonds and three of clubs against Juanda's king of diamonds and two of diamonds in the last hand. |
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Once transferred to a subsidiary elsewhere where their value is not taxed, the same diamonds are frequently worth more. |
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The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste. |
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As Nadir Shah took away the famous Peacock throne, of Saharan, it was replaced with a replica which was decorated with fake pearls and diamonds. |
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Fish were sampled on the 5 th, 6 th and 8 th of May. Horizontal diamonds indicate the spermiation period for the AP and NP groups. |
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He cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack. |
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All six groups of diamonds were found in areas that would once have lined the edge of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. |
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He's too good at what he does to spend his time protecting a few scrabbly little diamonds. |
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The fairest diamonds are rough till they are polished, and the purest gold must be run and washed, and sifted in the ore. |
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Certain conditions can cause carbon to crystallize into diamonds. |
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Netting a quick ten grand on a day trade of 1750 shares, he paid off his credit-card debts and gave his wife a ring with five diamonds. |
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In 1999, they regilded the spire of the Shwedagon Pagoda, which now glitters with 53 tons of gold and 4,341 diamonds on the crowning orb. |
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In 1957, a South African adventurer, colonel Jack Scott, accompanied by a young man named Keith Whitelock, set out prospecting for diamonds. |
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Some drillers hoping for diamonds have gotten into trouble, since about 80 per cent of forest rings contain pockets of natural gas. |
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Eclogite is a diamond source rock rarer than harzburgite, but a lot richer in diamonds. |
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