Pactolus
Americannoun
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Alan M. Harter, managing director of Pactolus Private Wealth Management, said his firm was putting together private equity deals in many industries, with one or two families leading each.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2012
Not far off was the Pactolus Torrent, which once was noted for its gold-rich sands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bacchus told him to go wash in the source of the river Pactolus and he would lose the fatal gift.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
It then passed through another process within the powerful furnaces, which separated the ore from the rock and poured it forth, literally in a stream, golden as the river Pactolus.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
They bor'd Pactolus through and through, And kill'd and wounded of her crew So many, that she bade adieu T' the gallant boys of Stonington.
From The Defence of Stonington (Connecticut) Against a British Squadron, August 9th to 12th, 1814 by J. Hammond (James Hammond) Trumbull
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