aiguille
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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
I do not know if their rude resemblance to two figures, on opposite sides of a table or altar, has had anything to do with the name of the aiguille.
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
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
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