Pactolian

(One or two of them, you may perhaps chance to remember, sent short pieces to the "Pactolian" some time since, which were

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

Scores of tunnels have been run into the mountain to get at the gravel of this Pactolian river.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania

"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

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.

Lancashire Idylls (1898)

It knows that if Europe were to pay it in gold, it would be destroyed by the Pactolian stream.

The Outlook for Canada

Pactolian flood flowing toward Leopoldsville and the sea.

The Pools of Silence

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.

The Ivory Child

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.

Books and Culture

Pactolian sands of every river where Midas has bathed, and in many rocks of the earth.

Among the Forces

The creek caught it here and there, until, in grim irony, it seemed to bear their broken sluice-boxes and useless engines on the very Pactolian stream they had been hopefully created to direct and carry.

On the Frontier