In some wild mêlée the sacred fount had been tapped, and his teeth gleamed through a crimson mist.

Now armed mobs fought around the temple each day and a new band of priests guarded the sacred fount.

He on bended knees begged me with the most humble prayers that I would bathe him in the sacred fount.

He had no lawful name; none knew if sponsors had ever stood security for his sins at the sacred fount.

On the very first occasion when we baptized, we plunged a hundred persons in the sacred fount; on the second, all the rest without exception.

Here among familiar rivers, And these sacred founts, shalt thou take the shadowy coolness.