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- verb Present participle of
fountain .
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Examples
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We gazed down into the fathomless abyss to the lake of fire far below, roaring and dashing its fiery spray into billows and fountaining hundreds of feet into the air like Fourth of July fireworks you have all seen, and all the while we were suffocating and made dizzy by the immense volumes of smoke and brimstone ascending.
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In porn, Jackass and in FD, the first money shot usually arrives about 15 minutes in – except in FD it'll be something like a fountaining arc of scarlet viscera or a gluey 3D eyeball landing in your lap.
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The effort to choke back the mirth that came fountaining forth earned her a reproachful glance from Howard, “although he, too, was turning pink.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The effort to choke back the mirth that came fountaining forth earned her a reproachful glance from Howard, “although he, too, was turning pink.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Then he tried to drink in all the blood from his wrist and howl at the same time, and there was too much krovvy to drink and he went bubble bubble bubble, the red like fountaining out lovely, but not for very long.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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The ripples from her entrance lap at the statue of Ms. Cady that stands guard at the far end of the pool, her marble likeness bursting out of a shell, a trident in one hand, water fountaining into the pool from each of it prongs.
THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE Adrienne Maria Vrettos 2010
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Nate twisted around to look for his clockwork protector, but it was staggering from side to side across the steps, sparks fountaining from its chest; it seemed evident that Jem had severed one of its central mechanisms.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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The ripples from her entrance lap at the statue of Ms. Cady that stands guard at the far end of the pool, her marble likeness bursting out of a shell, a trident in one hand, water fountaining into the pool from each of it prongs.
THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE Adrienne Maria Vrettos 2010
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And fountaining up scares seems to be their thing.
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And fountaining up scares seems to be their thing.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: This Is Gothic News 2009
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