It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.