Fountains

Examples

• I remembered the ancient fables, in which human beings are described as dissolving away through weeping into ever-gushing fountains. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He stood there in his strange, whole body, that had its marvellous fountains, like the bodies of the sons of God who were in the beginning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I had nothing to do but listen to the pattering of the fountains and take medicine and throw it up again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Of what consequence was it to our four hearts, that they alone were the fountains of life in the wide world? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It sometimes appears as a jet of fire from 20 to 30 feet high; and, in the neighbourhood of Thsee-Lieon-Teing, the salt works were formerly heated and lighted by means of these fountains of fire. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Far below Eunice heard the musical splash of the fountains, and the chill odors of flowers floated upward, as though drawn by the spell of her beauty. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She thought of often having them by her, to feed her eye at these little fountains of pure color. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• On the contrary, in America, especially after the petroleum wells were opened up, and nature supplied the hydro-carbon in roaring wells and fountains, water gas came to the front. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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