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Sentences ending with fountain

Haven't they told you anything about the great miracle of the restoration of a holy fountain? [5]
That glorified drug-store with the five bays included in its manifold functions a department rivalling Delmonico's, with electric fans and marble-topped tables and white-clad waiters who took one's order and filled it at the soda fountain. [9]
She was sitting with Phanes in a shady arbor near the cooling spray of a fountain. [10]
Beyond the tables was a stage, with footlights already set and orchestra tuning up, and a curtain on which was represented a gentleman making decorous love to a lady beside a fountain. [9]
A soft light pervaded the place, perhaps filtered through the parchment-like white skin of the Tent, for it seemed to have no other fountain. [11]
The other gentle men, and among them my brother-in-law Paulus, had likewise sprung forward to lend their aid; he, indeed, had snatched his lace neck-tie off and dipped it in the fountain. [10]
I have mysterious knowledge which teaches me that there was an error that other time when it was thought the institution of the bath banished the fountain. [5]
The exalting and healing effects of metaphysics show their fountain. [5]
If any one has a very bad, shamefully corrupt cause to bring before the courts, I most earnestly counsel him to apply to the buttercup man perched on yonder fountain. [10]
I remember one fellow that had it blazing up from a pipe through a flower-bed, just like a jet of water from a fountain. [8]

Sentences containing fountain two or more times

Left the fountain at 1 P.M. (the fountain took us at least two hours out of our way,) and reached Mahomet's lookout perch, over Damascus, in time to get a good long look before it was necessary to move on. [5]

More example sentences with the word fountain in them

Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
What can compare with the vase of yon alabaster fountain filled with crystal water? [4]
Many similar caves were to be found in the holy Fountain, and other anchorites had taken possession of the larger ones among them. [10]
Captain McCarty's company was set to making canoes, and the rest of us looked on apathetically as the huge trees staggered and fell amidst a fountain of spray in the shallow water. [9]
His favorite place was on the brightest spot of a Smyrna rug by the conservatory, where the sunlight fell and he could hear the fountain play. [4]
Behind the fountain was a sort of cupboard--suggestive of the Arabian Nights, which Janet had never read--from which, occasionally, the fat proprietor emerged bearing Turkish coffee or long Turkish pipes. [9]
Besides, the blustering war of tongues had reached a merry close, and loud laughter blended with the shouts of fear and warning; for the surging throng had swept with unexpected speed towards the fountain and plunged Philostratus into the basin. [10]
That commonest of village sights was lacking here--the public pump, with its great stone tank or trough of limpid water, and its group of gossiping pitcher-bearers; for there is no well or fountain or spring on this tall hill; cisterns of rain-water are used. [5]
The water I took from the fountain of Trevi, which, you know, is supposed to possess the power of inspiring longing--only for the Eternal City, I believe--but perhaps in our phial it may awaken a desire for the Eternal Truth. [10]
At noon we took a swim in the Sea of Galilee--a blessed privilege in this roasting climate--and then lunched under a neglected old fig-tree at the fountain they call Ain-et-Tin, a hundred yards from ruined Capernaum. [5]
We went back to the valley, and rode to the Fountain of Ain Jelud. [5]
I bade farewell to the Common with its Cogswell fountain, and the Garden with its last awe-inspiring monument. [6]
She asked me to make a little design for a fountain, you know, and I'll have to get some measurements. [9]
The memory of them recalls my own youthful days, and I need not go to Florida to bathe in the fountain of Ponce de Leon. [6]
From one of the walls a fountain plashed into a large shell garlanded with green aquatic plants and tenanted by several goldfish and frogs. [10]
This led into the viridarium, a spacious quadrangle, paved at the edges and planted in the middle, where a fountain played; round this square the Governor's residence was built. [10]
The house of the Sheikh, and its garden, where were a pool and a fountain, were supplied from the great Persian wheel at the waterside. [11]
Between these is the old Residenz, adorned with fountain groups and statues in bronze. [4]
He smiled at the lizards hanging on the foundation stones, he paused to dip his finger in the basin of a fountain, he eyed good-humouredly the beggars--old pensioners of the late Dakoon--seated in the shade with outstretched hands. [11]
She saw again the ghiassas drifting down the great river, laden with dourha; she saw the mosque of the blue tiles with its placid fountain, and its handful of worshippers praying by the olive-tree. [11]
In the morning the fountain, which is, of course, artificial, refused to play, the rain in the night having washed in debris which clogged the conduit. [4]
They call it the Fountain of Jezreel, usually. [5]
It smells like the best limburger cheese, and is filthy with the washings of rotting lepers, but that is nothing, bathe in it; bathe in it gratefully and worshipfully, for this is the Fountain of Youth; these are the Waters of Long Life. [5]
The house is strictly in the old Spanish style, of one story about a large court, with flowers and a fountain, in which are the most noisy if not musical frogs in the world, and all the interior rooms opening upon a gallery. [4]
What a soaring, strenuous, gushing fountain spray of delicate greenery a bunch of bamboo is! [5]
The great procession stopped near a little house by the Aqueduct of the Failing Fountain, and spread round it, and the leader stepped forward to the door of the little house and entered. [11]
Here you can still see a fragment of the sparkling fountain which, when seen from a distance, with its sprinkling of diamonds, sapphires and emeralds, looked like living water. [10]
Skirting the south side of the temple, in order to get to the fountain, her chief thought was to keep in its shadow. [10]
I might have selected rooms, say on the court which looks on the exquisite bronze fountain, Perseus with the head of Medusa, a copy of the one in Florence by Benvenuto Cellini, where we could have a southern exposure. [4]
For instance, the Scot told about a pet flying-fish he once owned, that lived in a little fountain in his conservatory, and supported itself by catching birds and frogs and rats in the neighboring fields. [5]
At last he sat down on the ledge of the rude fountain, with his face towards the Gippies and the Arabs squatted on the ground, some playing mankalah, others sucking dry lime leaves, many smoking apathetically. [11]
In order to reach this fountain, Selene had to go along the corridor where lay the rooms occupied by the Emperor and his followers. [10]
Indeed, she wished rather that the freedman would keep silent when he began explaining his opportune arrival at the fountain, which must seem such a miracle to her. [10]
It brought both parties fame, and created a fountain of commiseration for them in sentimental breasts that is running yet. [5]
But there were others who looked to her in their need, and so the modest fountain which might have been filled to its brim was continually drained through silent-flowing, hidden sluices. [6]
By the Fountain of the Sweet Waters, which is over against the Tomb where the Dakoon should sleep, another thousand men were patrolled, with a hundred hillsmen, commanded by a kinsman of Pango Dooni. [11]
They passed out of the court-yard, and through the Gate by the Fountain of Sweet Waters. [11]
We passed out of sight of hotel and fountain, but were conscious of being--whirled on a circular descending grade, and very soon they were in sight again. [4]
In the midst of a vast marbled hall stood an elegantly-wrought fountain, connected with the fine aqueduct of the city. [10]
One of his occasional haunts was the fountain of Avellanos, in the valley of Darro. [4]
Though she might never see him again, this supreme experience for man or woman, this unsealing of the sacred fountain of life, would be for her an enduring sweetness in her lonely and laborious pilgrimage. [4]
The garden beneath my window, before wrapped in gloom, was gently lighted up; the orange and citron trees were tipped with silver; the fountain sparkled in the moonbeams, and even the blush of the rose was faintly visible. [4]
The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, and I gave way to tumultuous emotion. [5]
I knew from my father, whose father built a new portion of the Palace, of a secret way by the Aqueduct of the Failing Fountain, even into the Palace itself. [11]
We halted a moment at the ancient Fountain of Beira, but its stones, worn deeply by the chins of thirsty animals that are dead and gone centuries ago, had no interest for us--we longed to see Jerusalem. [5]
The word fountain means one thing in Syria, where there is but a handful of people; it means quite another thing in North America, where there are 75,000,000. [5]
But while he looked, the thought rose up in his mind like waters from a poisoned fountain, that there was a deep plot laid to cheat him of the inheritance which by a double claim he meant to call his own. [6]
I would have liked to bring up every creature we knew in those days--even the dumb animals--it would be bathing in the fabled Fountain of Youth. [5]
How we all like the spirting up of a fountain, seemingly against the law that makes water everywhere slide, roll, leap, tumble headlong, to get as low as the earth will let it! [6]
Let me build it again, and the fountain shall flow forever. [5]
If the fountain is choked, how shall the water run? [11]
Sir Philip Sidney is better remembered by the draught of water he gave the dying soldier than by all the waters he ever drew from the fountain of the Muses, considerable as are the merits of his prose and verse. [6]
The large-leaved plants in the middle of the quadrangle threw strange, ghostly shadows on the dewy grass-plot; the water in the fountain splashed more loudly than by day, but with a soothing, monotonous gurgle, broken now and then by a sudden short pause. [10]
The saddest person in Mandakan was the present Dakoon, in his palace by the Fountain of the Sweet Waters, which was guarded by four sacred warriors in stone and four brown men armed with the naked kris. [11]
I am fortunate in having my information from the very fountain of first knowledge. [11]
Finding within himself his satisfaction, his fountain of appeasement, why should not his days be days of pleasantness and peace? [11]
I also asked him to bring me some paper and a fountain pen and a box or so of safety matches. [5]
He had seen him in Rome, he thought, at the Fountain of Trevi, where so many strangers go before leaving the city. [6]
The union of herself and Heinz seemed imaged by two streams flowing from the same great inexhaustible, pure, and beneficent fountain, which, after having run through separate channels, meet to traverse as a single river the blooming meadows and keep them fresh and green. [10]
It had hurt her, twisted her nature a little, given a fountain of bitterness to her soul, which welled up and flooded her life sometimes. [11]
Its song was heard in every house; the poets wrote its praises; the painters painted it; its sculptured image adorned every arch and turret and fountain and public building. [5]
Already she could hear the splashing of the fountain, she saw the marble gleaming through the darkness, and began seeking for the spot where she had seen her lover. [10]
This fountain of health has special qualities. [10]
Taking one down, he found a sketch of an artistic design for the enclosure of a fountain, done by the smith's hand, and directly opposite his bed a linden-wood panel, on which a portrait was drawn with charcoal. [10]
Their commander knew Gorgias, and he was soon standing in the impluvium of the scholar's house, an oblong, rootless space, with a fountain in the centre, whose spray moistened the circular bed of flowers around it. [10]
We went away from there and stopped at the Fountain of the Virgin. [5]
Round a dancing fountain were carefully kept beds of beautiful flowers. [10]
We visited the fountain the prophet Elisha sweetened (it is sweet yet,) where he remained some time and was fed by the ravens. [5]
The single jet fountain in the basin was springing its highest,--a quivering pillar of water to match the stone shaft of Egypt which stands close by. [4]
He fancied that everybody attached to himself an exaggerated importance, from the fact of being at the national capital, the center of political influence, the fountain of patronage, preferment, jobs and opportunities. [5]
He was finally dragged out of the basin of the fountain, dripping with water and overwhelmed with shame. [10]
When I walked down the long central alle of the old ground, I saw at the farther end, beyond a fountain, twinkling lights. [4]
Not content with doubling the legitimate stages, they switched off the main road and went away out of the way to visit an absurd fountain called Figia, because Baalam's ass had drank there once. [5]
If, nevertheless, I did it, I should destroy the most productive fountain of the King's wealth. [10]
In the driest days, my fountain became disabled: the pipe was stopped up. [4]
In my younger days I visited Fairmount, and it was with a pious reverence that I renewed my pilgrimage to that perennial fountain. [6]
What she had considered worthy of the greatest sacrifice was petty and trivial; no fountain of joy, but a fierce torrent of new wishes constantly surpassing one another. [10]
At Nazareth we camped in an olive grove near the Virgin Mary's fountain, and that wonderful Arab "guard" came to collect some bucksheesh for his "services" in following us from Tiberias and warding off invisible dangers with the terrors of his armament. [5]
A fountain visited by newly married couples and their friends, with a restaurant near by, where the bridal party drink the health of the newly married pair, was an object of curiosity. [6]
The pallid or burning cheek tells of the failing or leaping fountain which gives it color. [6]
It had been built on against the library, and sometimes, on stormy afternoons, she had tea there with Hugh in the red-cushioned chairs beside the trickling fountain, the flowers giving them an illusion of summer. [9]
Breathing anxiously, and bending her head low, Melissa, following her guide, reached a handsome impluvium, where a fountain played in the midst of a bed of roses. [10]
It might perhaps be less mischievous, but for the fact that the wound where it leaves its poison opens the fountain from which it draws its nourishment. [6]
The two walked apart near the deserted fountain in the middle of the court-yard. [11]
It flowed on and on, joyously, jubilantly, until the fountain was empty and dry. [5]
He is dead and gone; but the State-House has its cupola fresh-gilded, and the Frog-Pond has got a fountain that squirts up a hundred feet into the air and glorifies that humble sheet with a fine display of provincial rainbows. [6]
How much cheaper and better it would be if those people could only come here and drink of our civilization at its fountain head. [5]
These leaves, cut across here, belonged to a rose-bush which grew by the fountain of Eden before the evil of the first rain fell on the world. [10]
Over it is a very ancient ruin, with no known history --supposed to have been for the worship of the deity of the fountain or Baalam's ass or somebody. [5]
This fountain has a sweet savor, as of all manner of spicery, and every hour of the day the water changes its savor and its smell. [4]
The market-place was a scene of high festival, the beautiful fountain was a mighty bower of flowers, the triumphal arches, methought, were such as the gods of wood and garden might have joined to raise. [10]
She lies in a little house not a stone's throw from the Palace, and near to the Aqueduct of the Falling Fountain. [11]
The Pool is a deep, walled ditch, through which a clear stream of water runs, that comes from under Jerusalem somewhere, and passing through the Fountain of the Virgin, or being supplied from it, reaches this place by way of a tunnel of heavy masonry. [5]

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