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- adjective Pertaining to the
Pactolus , ariver in ancientLydia famous for its golden sands.
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Examples
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(One or two of them, you may perhaps chance to remember, sent short pieces to the "Pactolian" some time since, which were
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(One or two of them, you may perhaps chance to remember, sent short pieces to the "Pactolian" some time since, which were
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"Do not dull people bore you?" said one of the lady-boarders, -- the same that sent me her autograph-book last week with a request for a few original stanzas, not remembering that "The Pactolian" pays me five dollars a line for every thing I write in its columns.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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Little rivulets that ran gleaming like silver threads -- the Pactolian streams of childhood's home and lover's whisperings -- now swell and deepen and complain, as though angry with the burdens of the falling clouds.
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Scores of tunnels have been run into the mountain to get at the gravel of this Pactolian river.
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It knows that if Europe were to pay it in gold, it would be destroyed by the Pactolian stream.
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Pactolian flood flowing toward Leopoldsville and the sea.
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It was shortly after this boom that the gravel surrounding the rich patch became very gravelly indeed, and it was determined that we should buy a small battery and begin to crush the quartz from which the gold was supposed to flow in a Pactolian stream.
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This instinctive action of the mind, although largely unconscious, is by no means irresponsible; it may be directed and controlled; it may be turned, by such control, into a Pactolian stream, enriching us while we rest and ennobling us while we play.
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Pactolian sands of every river where Midas has bathed, and in many rocks of the earth.
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