aiguille

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In our opinion the western aiguille can hardly be more than 200 feet higher than the eastern one.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward

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

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

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

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 Ruskin, John

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