Fount

And what adds beauty to utility, and both finely blended, is the fountain in the front door yard. The jet is about ten feet high, the water falling into a circular fount, or reservoir, about fifteen feet in diameter and two feet deep. […] The arrangement of the pipes is such at the fount that the water is conveyed to the barn for the stock, to the kitchen for culinary purposes, or permitted to pass through the jet at pleasure.

At the town-pump there were gathered when he passed a few old inhabitants, who came there for water whenever they had, as at present, spare time to fetch it, because it was purer from that original fount than from their own wells.

A. H. Hews & Co., North Cambridge, Mass. Manufacturers of Poultry Water Founts. Capacities one quart, two quarts, three quarts, and four quarts. For sale, wholesale and retail.

On north side an alley six feet wide whole length of building, partitioned as follows: 1st, Feed troughs and water founts; above these, at proper height, two tiers of nest boxes, one above the other— […]

He is a real fount of knowledge!

This was the ſad beginning of our woes / that was from hell on wretched mortalls hurld / & from this fount did all thoſe miſchiefes flow / whoſe inundation drowneth all the world.

Come, thou Fount of ev'ry Bleſſing, / Tune my Heart to ſing thy Grace: / Streams of Mercy never ceaſing, / Call for Songs of loudeſt Praiſe: […]

O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set. / Ancient founts of inspiration well thro' all my fancy yet.

And was the day of my delight / ⁠As pure and perfect as I say? / ⁠The very source and fount of Day / Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.

Winifred Jenkins and Tabitha Bramble [in Smollett's work The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1777)] must keep Englishmen on the grin for ages yet to come; and in their letters and the story of their loves there is a perpetual fount of sparkling laughter, as inexhaustible as Bladud's well.

In fact, for all of [Diane] Morgan's game dopiness and genius timing, the biggest laugh might come from famed particle physicist Brian Cox, who—after having to listen to yet another misguided and meandering anecdote about Cunk's mate Paul, an ill-informed fount of knowledge for our title star—finally asks: "So what does Paul do?"

Of each Body he provides a Fount ſuitable to ſuch ſorts of VVork as he deſigns to do; But he provides not an equal vvieght^([sic – meaning weight]) of every Fount; Becauſe all theſe Bodies are not in equal uſe: For the Long-Primmer, Pica and Engliſh are the Bodies that are generally moſt uſed; And therefore he provides very large Founts of theſe, viz. of the Long-Primmer in a ſmall Printing-Houſe; Five hundred Pounds vveight Romain and Italica, vvhereof One hundred and fifty Pounds may be Italica.

Founts are large or ſmall, according to the demand of the printer. vvho orders them by the hundred vveight, or by ſheets. VVhen a printer orders a fount of five hundred, he means that the fount, conſiſting of letters, points, ſpaces, quadrates, &c. ſhall vveigh 500 ℔. […] [A] fount does not contain an equal number of a and b, or of b and c, &c. the letter-founders have therefore a lift or tariff, or as the French call it, a police, by vvhich they regulate the proportions betvveen the different ſorts of characters that compoſe a fount; […]

For the small characters it was in fact imperative to use such a fount as was available; not to mention that no strictly accurate fount of Chinese type has as yet been cast.

Mr. Tallboy corrected the misprints, damned their eyes for using the wrong name-block, made it clear to them that they had set the headlines in the wrong fount, cut the proof to pieces, pasted it up again in the correct size, and returned it.

The company is to be congratulated on the neatness and businesslike look of the tickets, and also on the very clear and artistic founts of type which are used.