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  • A vast promenade, mausoleum, acropolis, planetarium, library, opera house—everything marble and granite, everything profoundly clean.†   (source)
  • When we retake the ancient places, I will cover the Acropolis in snow.†   (source)
  • They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond.†   (source)
  • As the camera zoomed in on the Acropolis Sophie realized that the city must be Athens.†   (source)
  • Harrison, at one point, was standing next to a man named George Despinis, the head of the Acropolis Museum in Athens.†   (source)
  • Yet in my mind I roamed the Acropolis at Athens, watching the moon rise through the open roof of the Parthenon, measuring my height by the grandeur of those columns, walking the streets of those Greeks who died at Marathon, listening to the sound of wind in the ancient olives.†   (source)
  • This man, a friend of Jean de Satigny, had transformed his humble raw materials—flour, eggs, and sugar—into a replica of the Acropolis crowned with a cloud of meringue on which rested two mythological lovers, Venus and Adonis, fashioned out of almond paste colored to imitate the rosy tones of their flesh, their blond hair, and the cobalt blue of their eyes; with them was a pudgy Cupid, also edible, which was sliced in half with a silver knife by the proud groom and the dejected bridle.†   (source)
  • Once it had looked out on the acropolis that rose behind the city.†   (source)
  • The rebuilding of the Acropolis and the construction of the Parthenon were the two best known of Pericles' many ambitious building projects.†   (source)
  • They rested, visited the Acropolis, made the usual inquiries about Cacciato.†   (source)
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  • New York makes its own hills with craning buildings, but this gold and white acropolis rising wave on wave against the blue of . the Pacific sky was a stunning thing, a painted thing like a picture of a medieval Italian city which can never have existed.†   (source)
  • "Last I saw you," Percy said, "Zeus was chewing you out at the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • This is a model of the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis was crowded with tourists milling about in their respective groups.†   (source)
  • It was the voice from the Acropolis video that she had recognized.†   (source)
  • Could he be the same man who was now standing at the Acropolis in Athens?†   (source)
  • The camera focused on an old theater which lay just below the plateau of the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • If you are lucky you might be told a little about the Acropolis as well.†   (source)
  • Pictures of the Acropolis soon appeared on the screen.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis is falling into ruin, Sophie!†   (source)
  • Right now he's standing on top of the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • I wanted you to see the Acropolis and the remains of the old agora in Athens.†   (source)
  • On it was written HILDE … Alberto continued his wandering on the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • Beyond this camouflage is the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • Until we meet again at the Acropolis, bro.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis groaned and shifted as the Earth Mother woke.†   (source)
  • The fighting ranged all over the Parthenon and spilled across the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis seemed devoid of mortals, perhaps because of the financial problems in Greece.†   (source)
  • Piper strolled along the cliffs of the Acropolis unchallenged.†   (source)
  • If you try to approach the Acropolis aboveground, you will be destroyed.†   (source)
  • When the blood of the last heroes is spilled here, the Acropolis shall be razed.†   (source)
  • He might get turned into glitter or blasted off the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis is heavily defended, just as I described.†   (source)
  • From the port to the Acropolis, she didn't see anything of Athens except dark, putrid tunnels.†   (source)
  • But our underground passages could lead you straight into the ruins of the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • At the other end of the Acropolis, a hundred yards away, a geyser of water shot into the sky.†   (source)
  • As Piper watched, a new giant lumbered up the steps at the far end of the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • You built her first shrine on the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • The oldest shrines on the Acropolis are dedicated to Poseidon and Athena.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis is ringed with great siege weapons—onagers.†   (source)
  • All roads to the Acropolis are patrolled by the Earthborn.†   (source)
  • Just six demigods on the ground, and one more in a burning ship above the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • They leaped to their deaths from the cliffs of the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • "She'll reduce the Acropolis to a smoking crater.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis.†   (source)
  • When he reached the foot of the Acropolis, he went up a small hill and pointed out toward Athens: "The hill we are standing on is called Areopagos.†   (source)
  • High up beneath the sky—at the top of Sophie's screen—towered the monumental Athene temple on the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • "Come in," said Hilde, in the middle of the passage where the philosophy teacher was talking directly to Sophie from the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • If they had recreated all of the old square in Athens as well as the Acropolis just for the sake of a film—the sets would have cost a fortune.†   (source)
  • He could thus have witnessed the rebirth of the Acropolis and watched the construction of all the proud buildings we see around us.†   (source)
  • Above the skyline Sophie could still see the Acropolis, but now both that and all the buildings down on the square were brand-new.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis was rebuilt—rouder and more magnificent than ever—and now purely as a sacred shrine.†   (source)
  • Neither is he "an image of goldr silver or stone"—there were plenty of those both on the Acropolis and down in the marketplace!†   (source)
  • We are standing at the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • From the Areopa-gos—and beneath the proud temples of the Acropolis— he makes the following speech: "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.†   (source)
  • So did Sophie's philosophy teacher; he walked down the steps from the Acropolis and stood on the Areopagos rock before appearing a little later in the old square of Athens.†   (source)
  • She wrote that we know the moon is not made of green cheese and that there are also craters on the dark side of the moon, that both Socrates and Jesus were sentenced to death, that everybody has to die sooner or later, that the great temples on the Acropolis were built after the Persian wars in the fifth century B.C. and that the most important oracle in ancient Greece was the oracle at Delphi.†   (source)
  • As the early Athens began to develop on the plain below the plateau, the Acropolis was used as a fortress and sacred shrine… During the first half of the fifth century B.C., a bitter war was waged against the Persians, and in 480 the Persian king Xerxes plundered Athens and burned all the old wooden buildings of the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • "The Acropolis," Jason said.†   (source)
  • Somewhere nearby—past those rows of cruise ships, past those hills crowded with buildings—they would find the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • Underground passage to the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • He looked up as the clouds parted over the Acropolis, and he almost doubted the new prescription lenses Asclepius had given him.†   (source)
  • His ashes drifted down in a gentle cloud, dusting the tops of the olive trees on the slopes of the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • Piper sang a few more lines, then she risked another question: "The giants' defenses, the underground passage to the Acropolis—how much of what you told us is true?"†   (source)
  • Thunder shook the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • The Acropolis.†   (source)
  • "Give him back to me," she said, "and I will build your altar at the highest point of the city's acropolis and around it build a temple in which you will be honored so long as Attolia remains."†   (source)
  • According to Annabeth, the hill they stood on had once been Sparta's acropolis—its highest point and main fortress—but it was nothing like the massive Athenian acropolis Piper had seen in her dreams.†   (source)
  • They alone will visit Athens and Delphi, and either shrine of intellectual song--that upon the Acropolis, encircled by blue seas; that under Parnassus, where the eagles build and the bronze charioteer drives undismayed towards infinity.†   (source)
  • I do not allude to the impulse it received as she gazed at the Pyramids in the course of an excursion from Cairo, or as she stood among the broken columns of the Acropolis and fixed her eyes upon the point designated to her as the Strait of Salamis; deep and memorable as these emotions had remained.†   (source)
  • …pulled down, its arches dislocated, its columns stretching over the earth; in these ruins you could still detect the solid proportions of a sort of Tuscan architecture; farther off, the remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here, the caked heights of an acropolis along with the fluid forms of a Parthenon; there, the remnants of a wharf, as if some bygone port had long ago harbored merchant vessels and triple–tiered war galleys on the shores of some lost ocean; still farther off, long rows of…†   (source)
  • It was the acropolis of the barefooted.†   (source)
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