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Bronze-sheathed and thrusting out of a fountained plaza, the 38-story Seagram Building cost $36 million�more than twice as much as a building constructed to the usual speculative standards.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained.

From Time Magazine Archive

As blonde Effie Taylor swirled to Meyer Davis' tunes, some 800 guests danced the night away in a fountained fantasy of silver and blue at Beverley Bogert's many-gabled Anglesea.

From Time Magazine Archive

The elastic came off and the water fountained in the bull's eyes ...

From Time Magazine Archive

Towering waves crashed onto the shore; spray foamed white and rainbows fountained into the clearing sky.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr