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

The aiguille may generally be represented by the type a, Fig.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

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 Douglas, O.

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

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

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