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Her fountains ministered to bodily ailments—Vapours, Winds, Gouts, Quinsies, Consumptions, Fevers quartan and tertian—without pretending to the power of love-philtres or the sparkle of the Castalian Spring.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

For this reason Calhoun decided that Morgan should cross the river in between Hartsville and Castalian Springs, and assault from the west.

From Raiding with Morgan by Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald)

To whom wilt thou thy fire impart, Thy lyre, thy voice, and tuneful art, Whom raise sublime on thy ethereal wing, And consecrate with dews of thy Castalian spring?

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Sprinkled with dews from the Castalian font, Fain would I re-baptize thee, and confer A purer spirit, and a nobler name.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

Sam took the paper and read an account of the printing by a native committee of fifty thousand copies of the Declaration in Castalian, and its immediate suppression by Colonel Jinks, the censor.

From Captain Jinks, Hero by Beard, Daniel Carter