Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
fountain or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Blinded now, its blood spurting fountainlike, soaking its contorting torso, soaking me, the beast pushed itself to its knees, swaying back and forth while swinging its arms madly in a perverted parody of hide-and-seek.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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Blinded now, its blood spurting fountainlike, soaking its contorting torso, soaking me, the beast pushed itself to its knees, swaying back and forth while swinging its arms madly in a perverted parody of hide-and-seek.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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The hair on his head had been cut in some way that made parts of it stand straight up, while parts of it lay flat, all of it forming a fountainlike shape.
The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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This fountainlike spray of pictures has completely overcome the causal world.
The Photoplay A Psychological Study Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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And too pretty she was, with her foam-white and rainbow dress, and her downfalls, and fountainlike uprising.
In the Wilderness Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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And too pretty she was, with her foam-white and rainbow dress, and her downfalls, and fountainlike uprising.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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