Word Finder - fountain

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A natural source of water; a spring.

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An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.

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The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.

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A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.

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A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).

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A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.

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A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.

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A soda fountain.

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A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.

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To flow or gush as if from a fountain.

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Lava fountained from the volcano.

Damian crossed his arms and leaned against the wall around the trickling fountain at his back.

In the center of the chamber was a small fountain whose waters had long gone dry.

Why would he take the fountain pen?

She looked at the stone dagger and then at the fountain uneasily.

She set the knife down on the edge and circled the fountain again until she'd reviewed all three of the pictographs where the female figure held a dagger.

But really, I fell into the pool at the fountain, and this kind man brought me here to get me dry.

You know where the fountain is?

The fountain contained instructions for making it work.

He stepped through to a massive atrium with a marble floor, pillars, and water fountain surrounded by small gardens.

He disgraced or imprisoned the ringleaders, ordered Bernadotte (perhaps the fountain head of the whole affair) to take the waters at Plombieres and drove from office Fouche, who had sought to screen the real offenders by impugning the royalists.

Coca-Cola provided a soda fountain that sits in the kitchen.

The only known spring existing at present within the limits of the city is the "fountain of the Virgin," on the western side of the Kidron valley, but there may have been others which are now concealed by the accumulations of rubbish.

Hylas, like Adonis and Hyacinthus, represents the fresh vegetation of spring, or the water of a fountain, which dries up under the heat of summer.

The single flower still stood in the fountain, and she crossed to it.

She sat on the edge of the fountain and looked up at the glyphs on the wall.

Finally Fred O'Connor withdrew a crumpled dollar bill from his antiquated change purse and a fountain pen from his jacket pocket.

She leaned over the edge to see the stone tile at the bottom of the fountain absorb her blood.

The distinction between these two was made emphatic by Aquinas, who is at pains, especially in his treatise Contra Gentiles, to make it plain that each is a distinct fountain of knowledge, but that revelation is the more important of the two.

Evidence of the intense interest taken by American visitors in Stratford is seen in the memorial fountain and clock-tower presented in 1887, and in a window in the church illustrating scenes from the Incarnation and containing figures from English and American history.

Levi Coffin (1798-1877), a native of North Carolina (whose cousin, Vestal Coffin, had established before 1819 a "station" of the Underground near what is now Guilford College, North Carolina), in 1826 settled in Wayne County, Ohio; his home at New Garden (now Fountain City) was the meeting point of three "lines" from Kentucky; and in 1847 he removed to Cincinnati, where his labours in bringing slaves out of the South were even more successful.

From the Valley Gate the wall took an easterly course for a distance of woo cubits to the Dung Gate, near which on the east was the Fountain Gate, not far from the lower pool of Siloam.

The mound of Tell es-Sultan, near "Elisha's Fountain," north of the modern village, no doubt covers the Canaanite town.

At Cyare, a fountain near Syracuse which Pluto made to spring up when he carried off his bride, the Syracusans held an annual festival in the course of which bulls were sacrificed by being drowned in the water.

The extremely high pressure under which oil is met with in wells drilled in some parts of the Russian oil fields is a matter of common knowledge, and a fountain or spouting well resulting therefrom is one of the " sights" of the country.

A famous fountain in the Groznyi oil field in the northern Caucasus, which began to flow in August 1895, was estimated to have thrown up during the first three days 1,200,000 poods (over 4,500,000 gallons, or about 18,500 tons) of oil a day.

In 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon (c. 1 4 60-1521), who had been with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage and had later been governor of Porto Rico, obtained a royal grant authorizing him to discover and settle " Bimini," - a fabulous island believed to contain a marvellous fountain or spring whose waters would restore to old men their youth or at least had wonderful curative powers.

These elaborate waterworks were, according to Dorpfeld, constructed by the Peisistratids in order to increase the supply from the ancient spring Callirrhoe; the fountain was furnished with nine jets and henceforth known as Enneacrunus.

Mahommedan religion, consisting generally of a large open court (sahn) surrounded by arcades (liwan), with a fountain (mida-a) in the centre of the court, for the ablutions necessary before prayer.

Hero of Alexandria (284-221 B.C.), the ingenious inventor of " Hero's Fountain," is believed to have possessed a similar apparatus.

I don't recall ever being in a department store, drinking from the water fountain, and having the staff look at me disapprovingly because I was running up the water bill.

More pictographs were carved in the rim, and she circled the fountain twice before finding what she thought was the beginning, marked by pictures larger than the rest.

She held it with two hands and retreated to the fountain, unable to shake the instinct that said the dagger on the fountain was the same.

Kiera climbed to her feet, barely caught herself from hitting the fountain with the next great tremor of the ground, and bolted for the door.

They sure didn't cremate the woman, naked as the day she was born, holding on to a fountain pen!

The check was written with an old fashioned fountain pen.

There are many fine streets and squares and some handsome public monuments, notably among the last the fountain on the market square surmounted by a statue of Charlemagne, the bronze equestrian statue of the emperor William I.

Noteworthy among the monuments of the town is the Maximilian fountain (1880), with statues of Maximilian I.

Its chief industry is the mining of anthracite coal at several collieries in the vicinity; and at Fountain Springs, 1 m.

The Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) is a beautiful sight and is always filled with happy tourists and locals, especially at night.

These instructions will help you create the fountain as well as give you some ideas of how to make it even prettier.

After the Turks were driven from the city in 1878, it was in many respects modernized; but something of its former character is preserved in the ancient Turkish palace, mosque and fountain, the maze of winding alleys and picturesque houses in the older quarters, and, on market days, by the medley of peasant costumes - Bulgarian, Albanian and Rumanian, as well as Servian.

Reason is in his idea not the individual reason, but the fountain of natural truth, whose chief channels are the various systems of heathen philosophy, and more especially the thoughts of Plato and the methods of Aristotle.

In several places the debris within the walls is saturated with sewage, and the water of the Fountain of the Virgin, and of many of the old cisterns, is unfit for drinking.

Here the divine will is viewed as an efflux from the divine wisdom, as the intermediate link between God, the first substance, and all things, and as the fountain out of which all forms emanate.

The fountain mentioned in 1 Sam.

A two-legged female centaur, Taormina's mascot, crowns the nearby fountain.

A fountain flowing with aromatic Belgian chocolate creates the center piece to your special occasion.

Day 6 Morning sightseeing includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Pantheon, Piazza Navona and Trevi Fountain.

Rough sketch of the medieval market, plus the later fountain or conduit head fed by Hobson's conduit head fed by Hobson's Conduit.

As the old saying goes, toss a few coins with your right hand over your right shoulder into the fountain's waters.