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
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
It is seen, as there shown, from the moraine of the Charmoz glacier, its summit bearing S. 40� W.; and its cleavage bed leaning to the left or S.E., against the aiguille Blaiti�re.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John
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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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
