3323 examples of fountains in sentences

They have overcome the beast and are standing by the sea of glass, having the harps of God; the Prince of Pastors has appeared to them and they have received a never-failing crown of glory and by the Lamb of God they have been led to fountains of the waters of life."

"There was a profound silence, not broken even by the trickling of the fountains, which had been stopped some days before."

The Emperor is living in his palace, where there are fountains of wine.

As the rearing of calves for the market is a very important and lucrative business, the breeder generally arranges his stock so that ten or a dozen of his cows shall calve about the same time; and then, by setting aside one or two, to find food for the entire family, gets the remaining eight or ten with their full fountains of milk, to carry on the operations of his dairy.

Continual fountains welling chear'd the waste, And plants were wholesome, now of deadly taste.

How gayly murmur and how sweetly taste 670 The [Cc] fountains rear'd for you amid the waste!

[Footnote Cc: Rude fountains built and covered with sheds for the accommodation of the pilgrims, in their ascent of the mountain.

They are fancifully fitted up, and supplied with reservoirs, fountains, and flower-trees.

We may think how the flood came to pass; what means God used to make it rain forty days; what is meant by breaking up the fountains of the great deep.

Or that the fountains of the great deep must have been broken up by natural earthquakes, such as break up the crust of the earth now.

It was a mountain land, a land of hills and valleys, and drank water of the rain of heaven; a land of fountains of water, which required to be fed continually by the rain.

Contented to suck the milky fountains of their Alma Maters, without inquiring into the venerable gentlewomen's years, they rather hold such curiosities to be impertinentunreverend.

To pace alone in the cloisters, or side aisles of some cathedral, time-stricken; Or under hanging mountains, Or by the fall of fountains; is but a vulgar luxury, compared with that which those enjoy, who come together for the purposes of more complete, abstracted solitude.

They will not come in awkwardly, I hope, in a talk of fountains and sun-dials.

The artificial fountains of the metropolis are, in like manner, fast vanishing.

When relieved from the cares of state and his ambitious plans, and while walking in the winding paths among sparkling fountains and the fragrant flowerbeds, he seemed like a very ordinary man, quiet and reflective, with very good ideas concerning nature and architecture.

In the old chronicles it was called the 'Ville Septénaire,' because it possessed, it is said, seven churches, seven fountains, seven mills, seven woods, seven vineyards, seven gates and seven towers on the ramparts."

I don't mind the smell from the fountains, Though a rotten-egg scent is not sweet For I always can fly to the mountains And seek some umbrageous retreat.

At the close of an eloquent passage De Quincey writes : "Gravitation that works without holiday for ever and searches every corner of the universe, what intellect can follow it to its fountains?

"She bathed her body many a time In fountains filled with milk.

No! never, while the free air plays O'er our rough hills and sunny fountains, Shall proud New England's sons be free, And clank their fetters round her mountains.

As JOANNES HONTERUS, in Latin verse, wrote three books of Cosmography, with geographical tables; so MICHAEL DRAYTON is now in penning in English verse, a poem called Poly-olbion [which is] geographical and hydrographical of all the forests, woods, mountains, fountains, rivers, lakes, floods, baths [spas], and springs that be in England.

Then, instead of fifteen pounds to the square inch, atmospheric pressure is increased to five-and-forty, not calculating the simoom of the following morning, when he is as dry as the desert of Sahara, and eyes the pumps and soda-water fountains with as much gout as the Israelites did the water from Mount Horeb.

To make our city and our State free in fact as well as in name; to break the rings that strangle real liberty, and to keep them broken; to cleanse, so far as in our power lies, the fountains of our national life from political, commercial, and social corruption; to teach our sons and daughters, by precept and example, the honor of serving such a country as Americathat is work worthy of the finest manhood and womanhood.

"There are not many fountains in a good taste.

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