Pentelicus

Or is wisdom despised of men and can find no buyers, although cypress wood and marble of Pentelicus are eagerly bought by numerous purchasers?

Eryxias 2007

Or is wisdom despised of men and can find no buyers, although cypress wood and marble of Pentelicus are eagerly bought by numerous purchasers?

Eryxias 2007

His brow was ultra-fast as the marble of Pentelicus, and of a height and breadth almost squashy.

Think Progress » Bohemian Rhapsody 2005

His brow was less-traveled as the marble of Pentelicus, and of a height and breadth almost developmental.

Think Progress » Supreme Court Sniffing Around 2005

Mining was extensive: marble came from Mt. Pentelicus and Paros; silver, from Mt. Laurium and Mt. Pangaeus; gold, from Mt. Pangaeus and Thasos; iron, from Laconia; and copper, from Cyprus.

3. The Archaic Period, 800-510 B.C.E 2001

The mountains are higher, more varied and more beautiful than he had supposed, Lycabettus and the Acropolis more imposing, Pentelicus farther away, and the plain larger, the gulf narrower, and Egina nearer and more mountainous, than he had fancied.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

Before this phenomenon stood -- or rather fidgeted -- a beautiful Arabian horse with flashing eyes, and limbs clean cut as if by Doric chisel in marble of Pentelicus.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

Pentelicus, and Hymettus; an unsatisfactory soil; some streams, not always full; -- such is about the report which the agent of a London company would have made of Attica.

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

Pentelicus -- which island is Salamis, and which Egina.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

Rounding the point where Hymettus thrusts his huge length into the sea, the long, featureless mountain-wall of Southern Attica suddenly breaks down, and gives place to a broad expanse of fertile, and well-cultivated soil, sloping gently back with ever-narrowing bounds until it reaches the foot-hills of lofty Pentelicus.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various