1 Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 11 2 Hanging lights made emerald caverns in the depths of foliage, and whitened the spray of a fountain falling among lilies.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 12 3 Selden followed her, and still without speaking they seated themselves on a bench beside the fountain.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 12 4 And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 1. Loomings. 5 But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout. 6 You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain. 7 Outside the soft, monotonous splash of a fountain could be heard; the sound penetrated into the room with the heavy odor of jessamine that came through the open windows.
8 Still the clear fountain retained a portion of its charmed influence, but it reflected only the somber gloom that fell from the impending heavens.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 18 9 In the middle of the court, a fountain threw high its silvery water, falling in a never-ceasing spray into a marble basin, fringed with a deep border of fragrant violets.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XV 10 The water in the fountain, pellucid as crystal, was alive with myriads of gold and silver fishes, twinkling and darting through it like so many living jewels.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XV 11 Around the fountain ran a walk, paved with a mosaic of pebbles, laid in various fanciful patterns; and this, again, was surrounded by turf, smooth as green velvet, while a carriage-drive enclosed the whole.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XV 12 It was a beautiful moonlight evening, and he sat watching the rising and falling spray of the fountain, and listening to its murmur.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 13 A stream cannot rise above its fountain.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XLIII 14 There were trees, and flower-beds, and evergreens clipped into strange shapes, and a large pool with an old gray fountain in its midst.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson BurnettGet Context In CHAPTER IV 15 But the flower-beds were bare and wintry and the fountain was not playing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson BurnettGet Context In CHAPTER IV