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There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.
Sep 15, 2025
My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all
I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
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