aiguille
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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
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
On the 15th, about midday, we arrived upon the summit of the aiguille, and found that we had actually been within one hundred feet of it when we turned back upon the first attempt.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.
From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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
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