The ache in my head outthrobbed the pain of my cut finger.

Diamond arises in Gödelian meta-mathematics. In meta-math, sentences can refer to each other's provability, and to quining. This yields self-reference: T = is provable when quined is provable when quined.

Thus it happened that the approach of the Ibis was witnessed by Raja Neel Rattan Halder, the zemindar of Raskhali, who was on board the palatial barge with his eight-year-old son and a sizeable retune of attendants.

As had become her habit, Jane rove past her destination and curbed the car on a side street a block and a half away.