aiguille
Example Sentences
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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 Ruskin, John
The aiguille may generally be represented by the type a, Fig.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John
Our attention was engaged by the remarkable spike of rock, a proper aiguille.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
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 Ruskin, John
This strange aiguille has been crowned with a beautiful Romanesque chapel for some nine centuries, and it is just possible that a Roman temple stood there at an earlier date.
From France by Home, Gordon Cochrane
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
