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most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece- She wanted to see it all-the famous châteaux of the Loire Valley, the Parthenon, the Scottish highlands, the Basilica-all the places she'd read about.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
- In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthenon, obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Genevieve hill.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- But not the Parthenon, not the frieze of Phidias at any price; and here comes the victoria.E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
- A white mausoleum, someone's scaled-down version of the Parthenon.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- You ever see the Parthenon, Percy?Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
- In her dream, Piper flew above the Parthenon—the ancient temple of Athena, the left side of its hollow shell encased in metal scaffolding.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- She sat on her bunk, using one of Daedalus's 3-D-rendering programs to study a model of the Parthenon in Athens.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- This was neither a Parthenon, nor a temple of the Olympian Jupiter.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Langdon unveiled PHI in the architectural dimensions of the Greek Parthenon, the pyramids of Egypt, and even the United Nations Building in New York.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- He was like a poet in the Parthenon.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- "The Parthenon," I remembered.Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
- Once, the massive statue had graced the Parthenon in Greece.Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo
- Behind me you can see the biggest temple, the Parthenon, which means 'the Virgin's Place.'Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
- The rebuilding of the Acropolis and the construction of the Parthenon were the two best known of Pericles' many ambitious building projects.Doug Linder -- The Trial of Socrates
- The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- Directly in front of the car, the Lincoln Memorial rose with rigid austerity, its orthogonal lines reminiscent of Athens's ancient Parthenon.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- A green spot stood in the center of a picture of the Parthenon, suspended over the fireplace.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- He went up to seize her hand, and found she was clammy as a marine deity, and that her clothes clung to her like the robes upon the figures in the Parthenon frieze.Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- They will drive me in October to take refuge in one of the universities, where I shall become a don; and go with schoolmasters to Greece; and lecture on the ruins of the Parthenon.Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
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