spitzes

“Yes, and well named," said the captain, who was using his glass; "the land of mountain points -- _spitzes_ as they call them, or _piz_ in North Italy among the mountains there.”

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“There were the great stocks and horns and spitzes towering up, covered with eternal snow, and we gazed at them with awe.”

The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps