aiguille

Example Sentences

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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

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 Ruskin, John

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 Ruskin, John

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

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

Constantly I have been alone on the Glacier des Bois—and far among the loneliest aiguille recesses.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)