fountain
/ˈfaʊn.tɪn/ verb C2- To flow or gush as if from a fountain. · Lava fountained from the volcano.
He/she/it fountains · Past fountained · Past participle fountained · -ing form fountaining
Verb forms
- Base form
- fountain
- He/she/it
- fountains
- Past
- fountained
- Past participle
- fountained
- -ing form
- fountaining
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In one of the aristocratic mansions built by Puget in the Rue du Grand Cours opposite the Medusa fountain, a second marriage feast was being celebrated, almost at the same hour with the nuptial repast given by Dantès.
There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin.
Maxwell stood by his desk with his hands full of telegrams and memoranda, with a fountain pen over his right ear and his hair hanging in disorderly strings over his forehead.
The carriages that drove up to the door were compelled to turn, to avoid a fountain that played in a basin of rockwork,—an ornament that had excited the jealousy of the whole quarter, and had gained for the place the appellation of The Little Versailles.
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