aiguille
Example Sentences
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To these beds we shall return presently, our object just now being to examine the aiguille, which, on the Montanvert, forms the most conspicuous mass of mountain on the right of the spectator.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
The aiguille may generally be represented by the type a, Fig.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
The hollow in the heart of the aiguille is as smooth and sweeping in curve as the cavity of a vast bivalve shell.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
It needs to be buried in the snow by Joseph, and drunk out of a horn tumbler, at the foot of an aiguille, after a six hours' climb, to be at its best.
From Olivia in India by O. Douglas
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
