aiguille

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On the 15th, about midday, we arrived upon the summit of the aiguille, and found that we had actually been within one hundred feet of it when we turned back upon the first attempt.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward

The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.

From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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

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

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