aiguilles

Bonneville and Cluses), clouds hung upon the mountains at the distance perhaps of 6,000 feet from the earth, but so as effectually to conceal not only Mont Blanc, but the other "aiguilles," as they call them here, attached and subordinate to it.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 Various 1885

Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dôme overlooked the valley.

Chapter 9 2010

Back on the path, we picked up the pink dots again and crossed a rib or rock before starting to climb up to a ridge all dents and aiguilles – needles and teeth but with a good zig-zag path.

Day 12 Lac Blanc to Lac Noir 2009

The gondolas run slow enough for you to take in everything – the endless glaciers below us, jagged aiguilles, rock seracs, mountaineers crossing crevasses over snow bridges, a view that seemed to stretch forever in the incredibly clear air.

Day 9 – Trient via the Fenetre d’Arpette 2009

The gondolas run slow enough for you to take in everything – the endless glaciers below us, jagged aiguilles, rock seracs, mountaineers crossing crevasses over snow bridges, a view that seemed to stretch forever in the incredibly clear air.

Day 5 – Flying without wings 2009

La couleur est d'un rouge violet lie de vin, tirant sur celle de fleurs de pêche, lorsqu'elle est peu intense; on le trouve quelquefois en aiguilles divergentes, partant d'une centre commun, et formant de jolies rosettes à la surface de la gangue.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Here were palisades of burning orange with barbicans of incandescent bronze; there aiguilles of azure rising from bastions of cinnabar red; turrets of royal purple, obelisks of indigo; titanic forts whose walls were splashed with vermilion, with citron yellows and with rust of rubies; watch towers of flaming scarlet.

The Metal Monster 2004

Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dome overlooked the valley.

Frankenstein 2003

The great granite aiguilles of the forest of Bavella, a strange array of horns and pinnacles, run across the foreground; to the left the long fiord of Porto Vecchio stretches far into the land; while in the centre of the picture are spread out the broad Straits of Bonifacio, studded with pale isles and islets.

Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads C. B. Black

On crossing the bridge, we observed a man on one of the piers, spearing aiguilles de mer, a beautiful silvery fish, of which he had taken several.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes