Cause N. cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner^, prime mover, primum mobile [Lat.]; vera causa [Lat.]; author &c (producer) 164; mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation &c (support) 215. spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo

The babies are christened at the same font, the parents visit the same churches.

Diego Cam arrived safely in Portugal with Caçuta; who was soon afterwards baptized by the name of John Silva, the king and queen of Portugal doing him the honour of attending on him as sponsors at the holy font; and the splendid ceremonial was closed by the baptism of his sable attendants.

Piero made light of this chargehe was well used to that sort of thing, but, with rare effrontery, he held the infant at the font, whilst Panciatichi absented himself, and Eleanora made a tacit avowal of his parentage.

"Fancy the dame Mirabeau sailing stately towards the church font; another dame striking in to take precedence of her; the dame Mirabeau despatching this latter with a box on the ear, and these words, 'Here, as in the army, THE BAGGAGE goes last!'" Let those who justify the negro-pew arrangement, throw a stone at this proud womanif they dare.]

Les Paskagoulas et les Billoxis n'enterent point leur Chef, lorsqu'il est décédé; mais-ils font sécher son cadavre au feu et à la fumée de façon qu'ils en font un vrai squelette.

Les Paskagoulas et les Billoxis n'enterent point leur Chef, lorsqu'il est décédé; mais-ils font sécher son cadavre au feu et à la fumée de façon qu'ils en font un vrai squelette.

Ces sortes de funérailles ne se font que dans leur village.

31.Launching the Burial Cradle.] Il est vrai qu'il y en a qui font festin des cadavres de leurs parens; mais il est faux qu'elles les mettent à mort dans leur vieillesse, pour avoir le plaisir de se nourrir de leur chair, et d'en faire un repas.

190 Let Conscience, which is Interest ill disguised, In the same font be cleansed, and all the land baptized.

Thus, "the south alley for usurye, and poperye; the north for simony and the horse fair; in the middest for all kinds of bargains, meetings, brawlings, murthers, conspiracies; and the font for ordinary paiements of money, are so well knowne to all menne as the beggar knows his dishe.

There is a south porch, a rich font, the tomb of an ecclesiastic, and the assemblage of niches before described.

Nay, here's a harder imposition, Which is indeed the court's petition, That setting worldly pomp aside, Which poet has at font denied, You would be pleased in humble way To write a trifle call'd a play.

The church of Chalfont St. Giles has a Norman font, and there are other traces of Norman work in the bases of the pillars and elsewhere.

Had Crinkett showed himself at Chesterton, neither Mrs. Bolton nor Daniel Bolton would have been standing then at the font.

All this was passing through his mind as he was standing by the font.

Less than half-a-dozen yards from it, at the other side of the way leading up the church, stood the font, so that the stranger was almost close to Caldigate when he turned.

As the party at the font was broken up, the eyes of them all were fixed upon the two strangers.

As the little crowd prepared to move from the font, the two men got up and stood in their places.

They had all met together to talk things over in the old castle of Font-Ségugne, or, as Mistral more picturesquely puts it: "It was written in heaven that one blossoming Sunday, the twenty-first of May, 1854, in the full springtide of life and of the year, seven poets should come to meet together in the castle of Font-Ségugne."

They had all met together to talk things over in the old castle of Font-Ségugne, or, as Mistral more picturesquely puts it: "It was written in heaven that one blossoming Sunday, the twenty-first of May, 1854, in the full springtide of life and of the year, seven poets should come to meet together in the castle of Font-Ségugne."

The notary used to point out this rough, sacred stone inlaid in a baptismal font of Holy Water.

He it was who had given him at the baptismal font the name which had awakened so much admiration and ridicule among his school companions; with the patience of an old grand-sire narrating saintly stories to his descendants, he would tell Ulysses over and over the adventures of the navigating King of Ithaca for whom he had been named.

The baptismal font.

LA FONT, RENEE.

Elsewhere, in The Island he returns, amid allusions to the Alps and Apennines, to the friends of his youth: The infant rapture still survived the boy, And Lach-na-gair with Ida look'd o'er Troy, Mixed Celtic memories with the Phrygian mount, And Highland linns with Castalie's clear fount.

and what an everlasting fount of comfort!

He took the white fingers and gallantly raised them to his lips, but before they had reached that fount of truth and wisdom she jerked her hand away.

Dryness is apt to parch the fount of expansiveness.

But as it happens, the mere rind of this earth-fruit which has, countless ages since, dropped, as it were, from the Bosom of God, the Eternal Fount of Lifethe mere rind of this earth-fruit, I say, is so beautiful and so complex, that it is well worth our awful and reverent study.

To Tutt he was the eternal fount of wisdom, culture and morality.

It was the fount of English law and English freedom.

He was still in theory the fount of all authority and law, and could, whenever he chose, resume the powers that he had granted.

Kumodini Babu also thought of discontinuing the market which had been the fount and origin of his misfortunes.

TO C.... Behind a laughing waterfall There lies a little fount of tears, Deep, dark, and rarely seen at all By those the sparkling torrent cheers.

POET Then give me back youth's golden prime, When my own spirit too was growing, When from my heart th' unbidden rhyme Gush'd forth, a fount for ever flowing; Then shadowy mist the world conceal'd, And every bud sweet promise made, Of wonders yet to be reveal'd, As through the vales, with blooms inlaid, Culling a thousand flowers I stray'd.

FAUST Parchment, is that the sacred fount whence roll Waters he thirsteth not who once hath quaffed?

for the very fount of life.

No numbers have counted my tallies, No tribes my house can fill, I sit by the shining Fount of life, And pour the deluge still.

[Footnote A: Splendor of the Father's glory, Bringing light with cheering ray, Light of light and fount of brightness, Day, illuminating day!

It is not merely that historically he is the head and fount of the whole movement, that he changed blank verse, which had been a lumbering instrument before him, into something rich and ringing and rapid and made it the vehicle for the greatest English poetry after him.

While with permissive gaze I glanced the scene, A whelming tide of rich-toned music roll'd, Waking delicious echoes, as it wound From Melody's divinest fount!

To mirror forth her loveliness, from whom, Primeval fount of grace, their livery came: Pattern of Seraphs!

ter clear his throat; And then he'll say: "Dear scholars, I am glad ter see yer here, A-drinkin'erthe crystal fount of lore; Here with your books, anderanderyour teacher kind and dear, And withahemeras I said before.

This was written in 1528: but "the example of the Middle Ages" is held up to-day by German leaders as the true fount of inspiration.

I know the fount will never dry; But in its onward current keep, Through a long eternity.

But utter what our passionate wishes dictate: O that an angel would descend from heaven, And scoop for me the right, the uncorrupted, With a pure hand from the pure fount of Light!

Thy motheroh, a hell her heart concealeth, Lone-sitting, lone in social Nature's All! Thirsting for that glad fount thy love revealeth, While still thy look the glad fount turns to gall.

Thy motheroh, a hell her heart concealeth, Lone-sitting, lone in social Nature's All! Thirsting for that glad fount thy love revealeth, While still thy look the glad fount turns to gall.

Would the weak soul, did Love forsake her, E'er gain the wing to seek the Maker? Love, only Love, can guide the creature Up to the Father-fount of Nature; What were the soul did Love forsake her?