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Example sentences for "the fountain"

  • To right and left of us, scattered along the train, rode a dozen or fifteen men and youths on horses.

  • I had much to tell them of prison happenings and of the outside world.

  • But strongest of all upon me is what is strong upon all the company, namely, a sense of drifting to doom.

  • Some few of you who read this will know me immediately.

  • And our horses raised their weary heads, scented the air with long-drawn snorts, and for the nonce pulled willingly.

  • Evelyn kept looking at the fountain instead of thinking of what she was saying; the fountain without any water seemed to be the type of her own being.

  • They looked at the fountain in front of them, which had long ceased to play.

  • I shall be in the garden, by the fountain.

  • O beautiful as Rebecca at the fountain, O beautiful as Ruth among the sheaves!

  • X Like the Kingdom of Heaven, the Fountain of Youth is within us; If we seek it elsewhere, old shall we grow in the search.

  • Immersed in the fountain, Tantalus tastes not The water that wastes not!

  • From the cool cisterns of the midnight air My spirit drank repose; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,-- From those deep cisterns flows.

  • Meet me at the fountain at the north entrance of the palace in half an hour.

  • And from the foot of the fountain ran a tortuous rivulet that lighted the walls and roof of a narrow chamber that extended for miles down toward the bowels of the earth.

  • Tell her to meet me at the fountain where we last met," and he hastened back to the spot mentioned.

  • Near them was a tall fountain the water of which was playing weird music on great bells of glass, some of which hung in the fountain's stream and others rose and fell, giving forth strange, submerged tones in the foaming basin.

  • They parted at the fountain in the park, she hastening to the palace, and he turning to stroll through the little wood behind him.

  • On looking to the fountain, Ravenswood discerned a female figure, dressed in a white, or rather greyish, mantle, placed on the very spot on which Lucy Ashton had reclined while listening to the fatal tale of love.

  • To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaided mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the fountain.

  • She always appeared and disappeared close by the fountain, with which, therefore, her lover judged she had some inexplicable connexion.

  • As I was leaving my big room, I was accosted politely by a man who said he was glad to be my neighbour, and offered to take me to the fountain if I were going there.

  • I returned to the fountain to see what I could learn about the nun.

  • Lost in thought I did not notice I had arrived at the fountain, round which stood the whole host of gamesters.

  • At least be kind enough to take me to the fountain.

  • Bearing in either hand a larger jar and a smaller, Each by the handle, with busy step she came on to the fountain.

  • When at the fountain I met him again, the sight of him wakened Pleasure as great as if there had met me an angel from heaven; And with what gladness I followed, when asked to come as his servant.

  • Come," she presently said, "Let us back to the village; for maidens Always are sure to be blamed if they tarry too long at the fountain.

  • The right hand of the Soldan grasps the treasures of the East, and it is the fountain or generosity.

  • I see them, our old ancestors, how they formed their friendships and contracted alliances at the fountain-side; and I feel how fountains and streams were guarded by beneficent spirits.

  • The other day I went to the fountain, and found a young servant-girl, who had set her pitcher on the lowest step, and looked around to see if one of her companions was approaching to place it on her head.

  • Must it ever be thus,--that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery?

  • How she will rejoice and be astonished at what her master of the fountain told me!

  • Look here, the stranger, whom you took for the master of the fountain, told me the whole story in detail.

  • Presently a tall man approached them, greeting them respectfully, and Bertalda fancied she saw a resemblance to the master of the fountain in the imperial city.

  • The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood Is stopped, the very source of it is stopp'd.

  • What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love?

  • And in the fountain shall we gaze so long, Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness, And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears?

  • Across the thicket Leads the pathway tow'rd the cottage That I live in, To the fountain Whence I drink.

  • Cool is now the evening; Show to me the fountain 'Whence thou drinkest, Woman young and kind!

  • He at once rode to the hut, and found the two maidens at the fountain.

  • So taking her pitcher, she ran off in the clear moonlight to the fountain, which was at some distance.

  • I want to know what you were doing at the fountain so late?

  • But the sound became more distinct, and to his great uneasiness appeared to come from the OTHER side of the fringe of willows, where there was undoubtedly a path to the fountain which he had overlooked.

  • Tityrus beloved of me in the highest degree, feed my flocks and lead them to the fountain, etc.

  • He withdrew his encircling arm, released her hand, walked to the end of the aviary, and stood watching the shimmer of the fountain, where two of the ring-doves held their wings aslant to catch the spray.

  • Then let us go to the fountain head," said the countess, wringing her hands.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the fountain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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