aiguille

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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 Ruskin, John

The aiguille may generally be represented by the type a, Fig.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.

From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Our attention was engaged by the remarkable spike of rock, a proper aiguille.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

Constantly I have been alone on the Glacier des Bois—and far among the loneliest aiguille recesses.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)