aiguille
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She was reading the account of the first ascent of an aiguille in the Chamonix district, held by guides to be impossible and conquered at last by a party of amateurs.
From Running Water by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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
Our attention was engaged by the remarkable spike of rock, a proper aiguille.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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
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
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