snowpeak

• What pane bears more, the unseen edge of its imminence over each sill's tense anarch of candles, while the frontbell is ringing a little something, whose wording has not come down to us, we call it confluence or Cincinnati, some home at random under the habit of a snowpeak, pure alp up which the gaze drowns all hands lost, harmonious it wells with grass, grave settlements. —  blog
• There was no trace of asceticism upon his heavy face, but there was much mental force in his huge, dome-like skull, which curved upward from amongst his thinning locks, like a snowpeak above its fringe of fir trees. —  Tales of Terror and Mystery
• Poetry, which clears and intensifies like a glass held upon a distant snowpeak, is one of the best. —  Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
• Above this pastoral landscape, bare crags upheld a snowpeak; and, as if to lend a human interest to the scene, the old Marquess, his flintlock on his shoulder, his dogs and beaters at his heels, now rode across the valley. —  The Valley of Decision

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