Fountain of Youthin a sentence
- Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth.
- That little black bottle that Yaroslav referred to with a wink as the Fountain of Youth.† (source)
- It's a regular fountain of youth down there—provided you're already dead, that is."† (source)
- The prize had nothing to do with the chicken heart, but articles about his award conflated the immortal chicken-heart cells with his transplantation work, and suddenly it sounded like he'd found the fountain of youth.† (source)
- The fountain of youth.† (source)
- Or, 'If you have a minute, Captain, could you tell me how to get to the Fountain of Youth?'† (source)
- "With respect, ma'am, we've all heard of the Fountain of Youth and Shangri-la, but that does not mean they exist."† (source)
- Her fountain of youth.† (source)
- The man who found the fountain of youth.† (source)
- The fabled Fountain of Youth.† (source)
- "Ponce de Leon was looking for the fountain of youth," Mr. Jerger said, closing his eyes.† (source)
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- He found the fountain of youth, which he wanted to bring down to men.† (source)
- Katherine's words were coming out in rapid-fire succession now, explaining how this same magical substance appeared throughout the Ancient Mysteries: Nectar of the Gods, Elixir of Life, Fountain of Youth, Philosopher's Stone, ambrosia, dew, ojas, soma.† (source)
- Around the time Van Valen suggested HeLa was no longer human, researchers began exploring whether Henrietta's cells might hold the key to human life extension—perhaps even immortality—and headlines once again claimed that scientists had found the fountain of youth.† (source)
- The Catherines, the Baedeker, the Fountain of Youth, the slacks and shirt, a heavy-duty needle and thread from Marina were all in hand.† (source)
- And then there was Daddy's uncle Wendell back in the sixties, half-crocked, tried to swim to the mainland one night on a dare — I mean, Daddy, he used to yammer on how the water was the source of life itself for him, fountain of youth and all that and — sure, it was.† (source)
- And there, tucked in the corner behind two vials of French cologne, covered in dust, was that little black bottle that Yaroslav Yaroslavl had referred to with a wink as the Fountain of Youth.† (source)
- …all his life, the land he had struggled to reach, the goal of his tortured battle…… It seemed to her that the spirals of flame tinged fog were drawing time into an odd circle-and while a dim thought went floating through her mind like the streamer of an unfollowed sentence: To hold an unchanging youth is to reach, at the end, the vision with which one started-she heard the voice of a tramp in a diner, saying, "John Galt found the fountain of youth which he wanted to bring down to men.† (source)
- Four hundred years earlier the more literal-minded Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in a search for the land of "Bimini," where he had expected to find the fountain of youth.† (source)
- "Did you never hear of the 'Fountain of Youth?'† (source)
- It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.† (source)
- The famous Fountain of Youth, if I am rightly informed, is situated in the southern part of the Floridian peninsula, not far from Lake Macaco.† (source)
- Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage.† (source)
- They resolved forthwith to make a pilgrimage to Florida, and quaff at morning, noon, and night, from the Fountain of Youth.† (source)
- While he spoke, Dr. Heidegger had been filling the four champagne glasses with the water of the Fountain of Youth.† (source)
- Meanwhile, the three gentlemen behaved in such a manner as proved that the water of the Fountain of Youth possessed some intoxicating qualities; unless, indeed, their exhilaration of spirits were merely a lightsome dizziness caused by the sudden removal of the weight of years.† (source)
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