aiguille
Example Sentences
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It was exactly like the front of Notre Dame, with one slender aiguille, like a flagstaff, shooting up from the top of one of its battlemented towers.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
Their real aspect will be understood in a moment by a glance at the opposite plate, 31, which represents the central aiguille in the woodcut outline Fig.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
Our attention was engaged by the remarkable spike of rock, a proper aiguille.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
Constantly I have been alone on the Glacier des Bois—and far among the loneliest aiguille recesses.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
The larger masses of the whole aiguille, and true contour of this horn, are carefully given in plate 30, Fig.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
