fountain-fed

Updated: May 22, 2025

She had envisaged the mountains to her soul as clad with shady woods, and strewn with huge boulders under whose umbrageous shelter bloomed waving masses of the pretty pale blue Apennine anemones she saw sold in big bunches at the street corners in Florence. She had imagined, in short, that Umbria was a wilder Italian Wales, as fresh, as green, as sweet-scented, as fountain-fed.

Grant Allen - The Woman Who Did

And he gloried in all its beauty of golden dishes, gorgeous dress, fountain-fed gardens, jewel-fruited trees and prancing steeds. He read carefully, one forefinger traveling to and fro across the wide pages, while his lips moved silently, and he dragged at his hair.

Eleanor Gates - The Rich Little Poor Boy