fountains

• “At a former time, when these dried-up fountains were all in motion, they must have made a beautiful display on a grand scale; and nearly all this basin appears to me to have been formed under their action, and should be called the _place of fountains_.”

  The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources

• “All this talk of chocolate fountains is putting me off my Bubbly.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » Newly renovated Ladies Lounge.

• “The charm of water, in fountains, streams or pools is all over the place.”

  The Spanish Nations and Their Increasing Interest To Us

• “Instead of the boundless forest, the enclosure of a park afforded the more indolent pleasures of the chase; their new habitations were decorated with painting and sculpture; their superfluous treasures were cast in fountains, and basins, and statues of massy silver; and the artists of China and”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “a thread-form respiratory tube; of the musca chamæleon, the larva lives in fountains; and the fly occasionally walks upon the water.”

  Note IV

• “Issuing from 16 machines tucked beside the fountains was an explosion of scented bubbles in Louis XIV's favorite fruits -- melon, pear and strawberry.”

  Forbes: What A Nose

• “The fountains were a harmony of sight, sound, and movement.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Hostage Bride

• “There was no landing-place till very near the plunge, and in dropping down when we came to the point where it was planned that I should jump out upon a projecting flat rock, a sudden lurch of the boat due to what Stanton afterwards called fountains, and we termed boils, caused me, instead of landing on the rock, to disappear in the rushing waters.”

  The Romance of the Colorado River

• “There at the fountains were the water-carriers waiting with their water-skins, and there in the market-place sat the women and children with their dishes of soup; there were the men by the booths with their pipes ready charged with keef, and there was the mooddin in the minaret, looking out over the plain.”

  The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable

• “Others may shrink and dry up under his beam: their fountains are the snows of a thousand winters.”

  Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge

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