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It is a small but beautiful specimen of the pure Doric, built of Pentelican marble, centuries of exposure to the open air giving it a yellowish tint, which softens the brilliancy of the white.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd

The discovery and fast-increasing use of a noble material, found in vast abundance nearer to our 189 city than the Pentelican quarries to Athens, may well awaken, as they do, new attention to architectural improvement.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel

With ten thousand pounds in the treasury, he is building a palace of white Pentelican marble, to cost three hundred thousand pounds.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd

That the Greek Parliament voted the Pentelican marble for the poet of the Griechenlieder, as it had done for Lord Byron, was another inducement for his fellow citizens to do honour to their honoured poet.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

And the tiles on the roof are not of baked earth; but Pentelican marble, to imitate tiles.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)