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Fountain   /fˈaʊntən/   Listen
Fountain

noun
1.
A structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises.
2.
A natural flow of ground water.  Synonyms: natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring.
3.
An artificially produced flow of water.  Synonym: jet.
4.
A plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water.  Synonym: fount.



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"Fountain" Quotes from Famous Books



... denominational. In the last forty years six new universities have been founded in England, and the number of university students has risen from 2,300 to 13,000. In Ireland, on the other hand, for three-fourths of the population knowledge must still remain a fountain sealed; it is as though one were applying literally to that country the text—"He that ...
— Ireland and the Home Rule Movement • Michael F. J. McDonnell

... a politic stroke of the Kenwigses, because it made Mr Lillyvick the great head and fountain of the baby's importance. The good gentleman felt the delicacy and dexterity of the touch, and at once proposed the health of the gentleman, name unknown, who had signalised himself, that night, ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens

... please sign here, Mrs. Meilke," he said calmly, coming over to them with the sheet of paper laid smoothly upon a last-year's best-seller and with Charlie's fountain pen in his other hand. "And if Miss MacDonald will also sign, as an endorser, I think I can safely do away with any mortgage or other ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower

... danger be permitted to remain? We must answer this question. If we say no, it is no! Slavery is a curse to the North. It impoverishes the South, and demoralizes both. It is the parent of treason, the seedling of tyranny, and the fountain-source of all the ills that have infected our life as a people, being the central cause of all our conflicts of the past and the war of to-day. What reason have we for permitting it to remain? God does not want ...
— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams

... a breeze, but not a cool one, blowing; and we left aside for this time the pretty camping station of Elisha's Fountain, because we had business to transact at the village of Er-Rihha, (or Jericho.) There accordingly our tents were pitched; and in a circle at our doors were attentive listeners to a narration of the events of Lieut. Molyneux's Expedition on the Jordan ...
— Byeways in Palestine • James Finn


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