There is no such thing here as a science of politics, because it is not to any one's interest to make politics the study of his life.
As to lying, generally, he is not conspicuously worse than the mere lover, male or female; for lovers have been liars from the beginning of time.
When the Dragon has been chained in the Bottomless Pit and we are living under the rule of the saints, things will be so ordered, but in these rascal times "revolutions are not made with rosewater," and this is a revolution.
It is a fountain of life; every operation thereof, every act and exercise thereof, hath a true and natural tendency to spiritual and eternal felicity.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Is any fountain of so strange a nature, At once to send forth sweet and bitter water?
Go to him continually, as to a fountain of life that is open for the supply of the needy.
He poured out his life to open a fountain for sin and uncleanness; and as they are liable to pollution in their passage through the world, he only is able, and he ever liveth, to make intercession for their transgressions.
He that is come to Jesus Christ hath found in him a fountain of grace, sufficient, not only to pardon sin, but to sanctify the soul, and to preserve it from falling, in this evil world.
And yet he saith, 'I am the way to the Father,' for that it is HE that is the fountain and ocean of happiness and bliss.
This is a most solemn and awful appeal to the consciences of those who, forsaking the fountain of salvation, venture to build their hopes of pardon upon some other foundation than Jesus Christ, the Rock of Ages.
Inspired with new life, I threw away the water-skin, redoubled my speed, and in half an hour had thrown myself down by the side of the fountain from which I had previously imbibed large draughts of the refreshing fluid.
There I sat, each second rising higher and higher, balanced like the gilt ball of pith, which is borne up by the vertical stream of the fountain which plays in the inner court of your highness's palace.
She led the way to a hall of black marble, in the centre of which the fountain threw up its water to the height of twelve, or fourteen feet, and fell into a spacious basin.
I see it now, as I kissed the little ruby fountain which bubbled from its heart: I see her too, as they bore her away senseless in their arms.
In one corner a fountain of air bubbled up through the water.
Instead of standing there weeping like a fountain and doing nothing, why aren't you getting Mademoiselle's room ready for her?
She turned on me a scared look, gasped, pulled down her veil, which she had raised so as to dab her eyes with her pocket-handkerchief, and incontinently checked the fountain of her tears.
The heart, it is vulgarly said, is the fountain and workshop of the vital spirits, the centre from which life is dispensed to the several parts of the body.
Beyond a second gate you will find Ghúls; throw bread to them right and left, and after passing them, look up, and you will find a tree in a fountain surrounded with roses and jasmine.
When the fountain of words flows in a desert of ideas, it's Verbomania.
Old Ponce de Leon lost out in searching for the fountain of youth.
The fountain where we drink the waters rises between two hanging hills, and is overshadowed with large trees, that give a freshness in the hottest time of the day.
Ignorance is as much the fountain of vice as idleness, and indeed generally produces it.
Listen, the tinkle of the fountain yonder, The sleepy stir of leaves, the querulous pipe Of some far bird--no more.
Bending beneath the weight upon her back, she emptied them into the basin of the fountain that stands in the middle of the Place, then rushed back for more, while the flames poured from the windows of the upper story.
They were not the least thirsty among those who thronged around the fountainof wealth and honor; and their importunate demands upon the emperor's bounty led to a perpetual and reckless waste of money.
These children screaming round your feet, as they dash through the wind-borne fountain spray, are aware of it.
The central fountain is playing again its rainbow jet of spray, the tulips are a jaunty ring about it, the benches have put forth a strange, sad foliage of humanity (you must not think too much of the benches nor look at them too long!
Grey was so rejoiced at the breaking up of the ice that had long frozen the fountain of her tears, that he made no attempt to interrupt her, until he saw that she tottered in her chair.
We had left the throng of guests far behind, and the place was very still; the birds, as if oppressed with its beauty, had ceased to sing, and only the fountainbroke the silence.
Have you been drinking from the Trevi fountain by moonlight, like those mad English?
The faith rooted itself in their hearts with a tenacity which was not easily destroyed, even by penal laws, because they imbibed it from its fountain source--the Church herself.
I saw a pretty picture last evening--Sister Rose standing on a stool near the fountain of the court, surrounded by a group of gay young ladies, to whom she was preaching.
Morality and religion flow from her lips as from a purefountain that vivifies her soul.
There are no facts or analogies from which such a law can be adduced, and a Catholic nation, if truly Catholic, has in its religion a fountain of perennial youth.
The door was shut, yet let in day, 35 The fountain seal'd, yet life found way.
The door was shut, the fountain seal'd; Yet Light was seen and Life reueal'd.
The world-illuminating brilliancy of the fountain of the sun, in like manner, appears dim to the eye of the purblind mole.
Men soured by misfortune anxiously desire that the state and fortune of the prosperous may decline; if the eye of the bat is not suited for seeing by day, how can the fountain of the sun be to blame?
No unmeaning invitation, for the fountain below ceased not to pour forth three streams of various coloured wines, supplied by reservoirs in the interior of the palace.
It boasts, however, a fountain of delicious water at its entrance, where we and our horses by turns regaled ourselves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fountain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
