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Definition of Fountainheads
1. fountainhead [n] - See also: fountainhead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fountainheads
Literary usage of Fountainheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"He tells him he has gone to " the fountainheads," and tested the claims of the
... And can a man pretend that he draws from the "fountainheads," when he has ..."
2. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"... and a considerable part of the eleventh century, St Gall was one of the great
fountainheads of light north of the Alps. Under ..."
3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to ...by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"The opinion of those men, therefore, who handed the Gospel down to us, having
been investigated, from their very fountainheads, let us proceed also to the ..."
4. The Bookman (1906)
"... by the inscriptions which have been discovered in Gaul, Mr. Squire confines
his attention to the great fountainheads of Celtic myth—Ireland and Britain. ..."
5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... practically all his juniors, felt the influence of the flood of criticism that
welled, gently but irresistibly, from the fountainheads of the Causeries ..."
6. Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang (1905)
"... DD," the fragment of biography and autobiography, the description of the
fountainheads from which the genius of the author flowed. In his early boyhood, ..."
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