The neighbors seem to vie with each other in friendly emulation as to who shall keep the smoothest lawn, the neatest fence or the most graceful fountain.

Not far off, dirt suddenly rose into the air in a graceful fountain.

In illuminated manuscripts like the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1411-1416), the Garden of Eden was shown with a graceful gothic fountain in the center (see illustration).

The same site yielded a broken obelisk that now crowns the graceful fountain in front of the Pantheon; its hieroglyphics are another tribute to Ramses II.

Spock drove through and parked beside a graceful fountain that spilled sparkling blue water into a free-form basin and then recycled it through the fountain system.

Fine jets of water suddenly rose up in graceful fountains, sparkling in the moonlight as the night winds drove them against the inner sheer sides of the wall where they ran in glistening droplets down on to the cobbles.

Looking out of the bus window one day, I saw a tall, graceful fountain in the garden behind a building that fronted on Constitution Avenue.

A cloud of dust rose not far in front of the landcruiser; dirt and asphalt rose in a graceful fountain, then pattered down again, some of it onto Ussmak's vision slits.

With its tree-lined avenues and graceful fountains, it is a place where Hermès and Max Mara have retail outlets and summer homes can go for $1 million-plus.

Forsythia is one of many deciduous shrubs that look their best with their stems rising up in a clump from ground level into an informal, graceful fountain of foliage and flowers.