aiguille
Example Sentences
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The aiguille may generally be represented by the type a, Fig.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
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 Gordon Cochrane Home
The larger masses of the whole aiguille, and true contour of this horn, are carefully given in plate 30, Fig.
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
Constantly I have been alone on the Glacier des Bois—and far among the loneliest aiguille recesses.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
