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  • But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand where I am standing.   (source)
    pinnacle = high point
  • The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power.   (source)
    pinnacle = top (highest point)
  • High against the black sky the flash of a lamp would show crocketed pinnacles and indented battlements.   (source)
    pinnacles = pointed towers
  • Three silent pinnacles of aged snow,
    Stood sunset-flush'd: and, dew'd with showery drops,
    Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.   (source)
    pinnacles = mountain peaks or rock formations
  • He fell in love with the fact that his Termites were at the absolute pinnacle of the intellectual scale, at the ninety-ninth percentile of the ninety-ninth percentile, without realizing how little that seemingly extraordinary fact meant.†   (source)
  • There is beauty where we sit this afternoon, Allie and I. This is the pinnacle of my life · They are here at the creek: the birds, the geese, my friends.†   (source)
  • Elegantly sculpted contours, soaring pinnacles of ice, deep majestic ravines!†   (source)
  • Everything was far away and flat; the ground, lacking the upward curve of Battle School floors, seemed instead to fall away, so that on level ground Ender felt as though he were on a pinnacle.†   (source)
  • The spectacularly fluted ice pinnacles of Thamserku and Kusum Kangru pierced the sky more than two vertical miles above.†   (source)
  • Orik pointed at Tronjheim's white pinnacle.†   (source)
  • The pinnacle of German invention, can be kept in business by twelve little African boys and some elephant grass.†   (source)
  • Just because you make horrendous and destructive choices does not mean you deserve less respect for what you inherently are—the pinnacle of my Creation and the center of my affection.†   (source)
  • Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.†   (source)
  • You start by building a broad foundation, strong enough to support your premise, then work your way up toward the pinnacle.†   (source)
  • He's at the pinnacle of power in Cuban medicine and he lives like a lower-middle-class American, and he doesn't care.†   (source)
  • For to men, freedom in their own land is the pinnacle of their ambitions, from which nothing can turn men of conviction aside.†   (source)
  • Johnnie gazed steadily up at those windows; the glow within was other than that which gilded turret and pinnacle and fairy isle in the Western sky, yet perchance this light might be a lamp to the feet of one who wished to climb that way.†   (source)
  • A nearby building had a fabulous art deco statue at its pinnacle.†   (source)
  • At the pinnacle of his career, that figure had jumped to 90 percent, plus eight million sets in cars.†   (source)
  • No, the idea of having sex with you is, as always, the pinnacle of dreams.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Frodo that he was lifted up, and passing over he saw that the rock-wall was a circle of hills, and that within it was a plain, and in the midst of the plain stood a pinnacle of stone, like a vast tower but not made by hands.†   (source)
  • Rostipov made his living as a magician in vaudeville shows and had achieved the incredible feat of stringing a wire from the pinnacle of the cathedral to the cupola of the Galician Brotherhood, on the other side of the plaza, which he walked across with only a frail stick for balance.†   (source)
  • Instead, it's this weekend, April 12 and 13, that many students consider the true pinnacle of Brown partying, a weekend when all quarters of the university seem to be working furiously to entertain themselves, turning the campus into a vast progressive dinner party, with each house on the street serving a different dish.†   (source)
  • It wasn't because I didn't think horses were beautiful, majestic creatures, the pinnacle of animal creation, etc., etc.—it's just that I didn't believe any animal had the slightest interest in being mounted or ridden by a human being.†   (source)
  • The pinnacle of the dramatic possibilities available to my life!†   (source)
  • I looked down at Omega, the superboy, the pinnacle of Itex's achievement.†   (source)
  • Several hundred square huts, each glowing with a different color, rested like children's playing blocks in concentric circles around a large pinnacled structure that towered above the others at the village's center.†   (source)
  • The acquittal of Carl Lee Hailey was three years ago, and Jake sometimes feared he was now beyond his pinnacle.†   (source)
  • It seems as if nearly every building in this eastern part of the city is on scaffolding of some kind, and intermixed, these "pinnacles" rising over five stories into the gray, dreary sky.†   (source)
  • With his appointment to the Court, Adams felt he had attained the pinnacle of his career, and, with the retirement of Franklin, he was now America's most experienced diplomat.†   (source)
  • In 2004, I was already a SEAL, but making it to DEVGRU would be the pinnacle of my career.†   (source)
  • Long streaks of grime ran from under the pinnacles down the slender, soot-eaten walls.†   (source)
  • Easy for you to say from your little pinnacle of fame.†   (source)
  • It was a dark, Gothic structure whose pinnacles and steep roofs swept up toward the sky like a many-pointed crown of iron.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the guides would sit with legs dangling over an infinite precipice; they would stand on tiny pinnacles, smoking their pipes, coiling ropes, and sorting the climbing hardware; and they would run up and down goat trails sometimes no less vertical and no more contoured than Trajan's Column.†   (source)
  • The field outside remained under the shadow of night, but the first fingers of dawn brightened the tower's high pinnacle.†   (source)
  • Through the double doors of oak the choir was singing to the very pinnacle of the church, the tiny organist pumping with surprising energy for one so aged and crumpled, and "Amazing Grace" trumpeted ever higher.†   (source)
  • He was above the clouds, sharing the sky with a few pinnacles of metal or stone.†   (source)
  • But being nearer the pinnacle of creation than you, and also president, I cast the deciding vote.†   (source)
  • Jutting rocky pinnacles and twisting crevices … Reflexively, I drew back from the edge of the abyss, turned my light away.†   (source)
  • By applying my natural Godgiven talents in their proper sphere, I shall attain the pinnacle of success!†   (source)
  • Knees bent on the pinnacle, raincoat whipping, he reached up and set it on his head.†   (source)
  • Ralph glanced up at the pinnacles, then toward the group of savages.   (source)
    pinnacles = high points
  • High above them from the pinnacles came a sudden shout and then an imitation war-cry that was answered by a dozen voices from behind the rock.   (source)
  • The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power.   (source)
    pinnacle = top (highest point)
  • He was standing on a tiny skywalk that encircled the pinnacle of the U.S. Capitol Dome.†   (source)
  • Langdon nodded, pointing all the way to the pinnacle of the building.†   (source)
  • The architecture leaned toward the futuristic…glass, spirals, pinnacles.†   (source)
  • And by its shape she saw clearly that it was a shadow of towers and pinnacles, minarets and domes.†   (source)
  • The massive square room was adorned with symbols and bathed in moonlight, which shone down through the oculus at the pinnacle of the ceiling high above.†   (source)
  • The uppermost shank of Everest's Southeast Ridge is a slender, heavily corniced fin of rock and wind-scoured snow that snakes for a quarter mile between the summit and a subordinate pinnacle known as the South Summit.†   (source)
  • The colonial architecture felt foreign but also crisp and unimposing compared to the Gothic pinnacles of Cambridge.†   (source)
  • In midafternoon we reached a bizarre procession of freestanding ice pinnacles, the largest nearly 100 feet high, known as Phantom's Alley.†   (source)
  • Passing through the towering ice pinnacles of Phantom Alley we entered the rock-strewn valley floor at the bottom of a huge amphitheater … Here [the Icefall] turned sharply to flow southward as the Khumhu Glacier We set up our Base Camp at 17,800 feet on the lateral moraine that formed the outer edge of the turn.†   (source)
  • The tattooed man now tipped his shaved head backward, revealing the circle of bare flesh on the pinnacle of his skull.†   (source)
  • Tonight, for the first time in his life, he had ridden the elevator up to the tiny viewing chamber …. at the pinnacle of the Washington Monument.†   (source)
  • He'd run and run, he'd reached the pinnacle of success; yet now, he realized he'd never taken his father's advice.†   (source)
  • They spent the afternoon hiking up to Big Pinnacle, where they shared a picnic lunch and took in the view.†   (source)
  • From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak it climbed. ascending in unbroken spiral in many thousand steps, until it issued at last in Durin's Tower carved in the living rock of Zirak-zigil, the pinnacle of the Silvertine.†   (source)
  • When she reached the pinnacle, she brought her wings down with a mightywhoosh, driving the three of them even higher.†   (source)
  • He walked around the perimeter, searching for a means to achieve the pinnacle, but in vain, for the weathered formation was impregnable.†   (source)
  • "Omega here is our pinnacle achievement," said the Director, "the result of more than six decades of research.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Legolas, as he strained his farseeing eyes, that he caught a glint of white: far away perchance the sun twinkled on a pinnacle of the Tower of Guard.†   (source)
  • Those families that have brought legal suit against the city have not been required to lower their homes, leaving some lots and the houses atop them isolated on forty— or fifty-foot "pinnacles," earthen towers rising from the new street level (muddy as it is).†   (source)
  • Westward he looked and saw the broad pastures of Rohan; and Orthanc, the pinnacle of Isengard, like a black spike.†   (source)
  • There would have been a splendid view from the top if it were open ground but among all those trees you could see nothing — only, every now and then, some huge pinnacle of rock above the tree-tops, and an eagle or two wheeling high up in the blue air.†   (source)
  • By pressing her face to the pane, she could see the whole of the Taggart Building, its lines converging abruptly to its distant pinnacle in the sky.†   (source)
  • And when they saw the tower, the pinnacle of Kessell's strength, crash down in ruins, they had reconsidered their alternatives, weighing the consequences of the choices before them.†   (source)
  • At first Shasta could see nothing in the valley below him but a sea of mist with a few domes and pinnacles rising from it; but as the light increased and the mist cleared away he saw more and more.†   (source)
  • They slept as well as they could for the cold, turn and turn about, in a nook among great jagged pinnacles of weathered rock; at least they were sheltered from the easterly wind.†   (source)
  • Gradually they were working their way up to the pointed pinnacle, and it began to flare as if on fire, shifting through the colors of the spectrum until its white flame rivaled the brightness of the sun itself.†   (source)
  • Chapter 9 Standing high on the bluff, Lee could see down the canyon, over the peaks and pinnacles, beyond the rich red buttes to the sheer-faced walls.†   (source)
  • They took me and they set me alone on the pinnacle of Orthanc, in the place where Saruman was accustomed to watch the stars.†   (source)
  • This was the way he had lived all his life-keeping his eyes stubbornly, safely on the immediate pavement before him, craftily avoiding the sight of his road, of corners, of distances, of pinnacles.†   (source)
  • There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark.†   (source)
  • Inside the walls the island rose in a hill and every bit of that hill, up to the Tisroc's palace and the great temple of Tash at the top, was completely covered with buildings — terrace above terrace, street above street, zigzag roads or huge flights of steps bordered with orange trees and lemon trees, roofgardens, balconies, deep archways, pillared colonnades, spires, battlements, minarets, pinnacles.†   (source)
  • A pinnacled roof formed by converging walls covered half of the area, the other half was open to the sky, but the entire place was set back into the mountainside behind high walls, safely out of view of Cryshal-Tirith.†   (source)
  • So it was that when summer waned, there came a night of moon, and Gwaihir the Windlord, swiftest of the Great Eagles, came unlooked-for to Orthanc; and he found me standing on the pinnacle.†   (source)
  • Frodo peering forward saw in the distance two great rocks approaching: like great pinnacles or pillars of stone they seemed.†   (source)
  • There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-coloured floors to meet the glistening pendants of the roof: wings, ropes, curtains fine as frozen clouds; spears, banners, pinnacles of suspended palaces!†   (source)
  • A peak and isle of rock it was. black and gleaming hard: four mighty piers of many-sided stone were welded into one, but near the summit they opened into gaping horns. their pinnacles sharp as the points of spears, keen-edged as knives.†   (source)
  • Frodo shuddered as he looked again at the distant pinnacles now dwindling into night, and the sound of the water seemed cold and cruel: the voice of Morgulduin, the polluted stream that flowed from the Valley of the Wraiths.†   (source)
  • Dimly the hobbits could discern tall piers and jagged pinnacles of stone on either side, between which were great crevices and fissures blacker than the night, where forgotten winters had gnawed and carved the sunless stone.†   (source)
  • Thus men reached at last the High Court, and the Place of the Fountain before the feet of the White Tower: tall and shapely, fifty fathoms from its base to the pinnacle, where the banner of the Stewards floated a thousand feet above the plain.†   (source)
  • Then Pippin cried aloud, for the Tower of Ecthelion, standing high within the topmost walls' shone out against the sky, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, tall and fair and shapely, and its pinnacle glittered as if it were wrought of crystals; and white banners broke and fluttered from the battlements in the morning breeze' and high and far he heard a clear ringing as of silver trumpets.†   (source)
  • Far off the shadows of Sauron hung; but torn by some gust of wind out of the world, or else moved by some great disquiet within, the mantling clouds swirled, and for a moment drew aside; and then he saw, rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dur.†   (source)
  • He felt that he was living upon a high pinnacle where bracing winds whipped about him.†   (source)
  • All that was a high historical view from a chilly pinnacle.†   (source)
  • She passed the pinnacles of bank buildings.†   (source)
  • No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air?†   (source)
  • For there, under the window in Arthur's Gramarye, the sun's rays flamed from a hundred jewels of stained glass in monasteries and convents, or danced from the pinnacles of cathedrals and castles, which their builders had actually loved.†   (source)
  • The sun beat on the crowded pinnacles of southern hills and glared into deep, stony river beds where the water was shrunk beneath the high slung bridge so that washerwomen kneeling on hot stones could scarcely wet their linen; and lean mules went picking their way among the chattering grey stones with panniers slung across their narrow shoulders.†   (source)
  • As you know, its high domes and pinnacles can be seen, like a sailing-ship always voyaging never arriving, lit up at night and visible for miles, far away across the hills.†   (source)
  • Factory smoke was standing away with the wind, and we were in an industrial sub-town--battlefield, cemetery, garbage crater, violet welding scald, mountains of tires sagging, and ashes spuming like crests in front of a steamer, Hooverville crate camps, plague and war fires like the boiling pinnacle of all sackings and Napoleonic Moscow burnings.†   (source)
  • The ogre had increased his stature to the height of a palm tree; he had created for himself a head as big as a summer house with bell-shaped pinnacle, eyes as big as alms bowls, two tusks as big as giant bulbs or buds; he had the beak of a hawk; his belly was covered with blotches; his hands and feet were dark green.†   (source)
  • And although she could not have said toward what pinnacle her life was moving, she saw in the future freedom that she had never known, possession and power and wealth, the desire for which was mixed inextinguishably with the current of her blood.†   (source)
  • It opened a prospect; the prospect one gained at the turn of the avenue, as I had first seen it with Sebastian, of the secluded valley, the lakes falling away one below the other, the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty; a soldier's dream in a foreign bivouac; such a prospect perhaps as a high pinnacle of the temple afforded after the hungry days in the desert and the jackal-haunted nights.†   (source)
  • The roof, that precinct in the sky, that silent balcony on the pinnacle of turmoil, demanded that what thoughts one had be had there.†   (source)
  • The morning was cool, and mists were in the valleys and hollows and twined here and there about the peaks and pinnacles of the hills.†   (source)
  • Here and there emerged from the mist (as Nancy looked down upon life spread beneath her) a pinnacle, a dome; prominent things, without names.†   (source)
  • Every loneliness is a pinnacle.†   (source)
  • THE JOAD FAMILY moved slowly westward, up into the mountains of New Mexico, past the pinnacles and pyramids of the upland.†   (source)
  • Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in deserts, but she would not forsake his altars.†   (source)
  • For the first time in his life he had gained a pinnacle of feeling upon which he could stand and see vague relations that he had never dreamed of.†   (source)
  • He was sitting, black in the moonlight, on the top of a lonely pinnacle of rock at the eastern edge of the mountains.†   (source)
  • Maybe you had to get chained to the high pinnacle with the buzzards pecking at your liver and lights before you could see it.†   (source)
  • Mounting higher, darkness blew along the bare upland slopes, and met the fretted and abraded pinnacles of the mountain where the snow lodges for ever on the hard rock even when the valleys are full of running streams and yellow vine leaves, and girls, sitting on verandahs, look up at the snow, shading their faces with their fans.†   (source)
  • And the opening at the top of the lodge—or the crown, pinnacle, or lantern of the dome—is the hub or midpoint of the sky: the sun door, through which souls pass back from time to eternity, like the savor of the offerings, burned in the fire of life, and lifted on the axis of ascending smoke from the hub of the earthly to that of the celestial wheel.†   (source)
  • He saw a string of lights rising unsupported in black space, a glowing pinnacle anchored to nothing, a small, brilliant square hanging detached in the sky.†   (source)
  • But when Minta dropped her hand, as she did when they ran down the hillside, all that, the dome, the pinnacle, whatever it was that had protruded through the mist, sank down into it and disappeared.†   (source)
  • Always (it was in her nature, or in her sex, she did not know which) before she exchanged the fluidity of life for the concentration of painting she had a few moments of nakedness when she seemed like an unborn soul, a soul reft of body, hesitating on some windy pinnacle and exposed without protection to all the blasts of doubt.†   (source)
  • The other one is that they know you're degrading yourself by needing them, you're coming down off a pinnacle—every loneliness is a pinnacle—and they're delighted to drag you down through their friendship.†   (source)
  • This was the pinnacle of my happiness, from which I was in a little while dashed to earth.†   (source)
  • She passed Lyman Cass's pinnacled, dark-red, hulking house.†   (source)
  • Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire?†   (source)
  • He hoisted the Union Jack on the pinnacles of Thought.†   (source)
  • Above it he could just discern the pinnacled tower of Trinity Church.†   (source)
  • Huge pinnacles and monuments of stone stood alone, leaning fearfully.†   (source)
  • He was high enough for the moment, to be sure, but not on any pinnacle.†   (source)
  • Why, they are windows and towers, and pinnacles!†   (source)
  • But by this renunciation he placed her on an extraordinary pinnacle.†   (source)
  • Here we have the topmost pinnacle of authority!†   (source)
  • The fire had run over the pinnacle, and in a great measure laid open the view.†   (source)
  • I will hang thee out to feed the ravens, from the very pinnacle of thine own castle.†   (source)
  • The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.†   (source)
  • It was an enchanting voice to his ear—an ear expressly fashioned to perceive that dry, sweet huskiness as utmost pleasure, as the essence of pleasure brought to one perfect pinnacle.†   (source)
  • Everything else was unchanged, the sun still shining mercilessly on the steaming marsh and the tall pinnacle of the mountain, and I could scarce persuade myself that murder had been actually done and a human life cruelly cut short a moment since before my eyes.†   (source)
  • The corners of wall bluntly rose, scarred and scrawled, to taper into towers and serrated peaks and pinnacled domes.†   (source)
  • In the valley beneath lay the city they had just left, its more prominent buildings showing as in an isometric drawing—among them the broad cathedral tower, with its Norman windows and immense length of aisle and nave, the spires of St Thomas's, the pinnacled tower of the College, and, more to the right, the tower and gables of the ancient hospice, where to this day the pilgrim may receive his dole of bread and ale.†   (source)
  • He saw a narrow valley; on one side the green, slow-swelling cedar slope of the mountain; on the other the perpendicular red wall, with its pinnacles like spears against the sky.†   (source)
  • In the middle of a tortuous valley there rises up an immense pinnacle and on the pinnacle are four castles—Las Tours, the Towers.†   (source)
  • We resumed our course; we had left Martinville some little time, and the village, after accompanying us for a few seconds, had already disappeared, when, lingering alone on the horizon to watch our flight, its steeples and that of Vieuxvicq waved once again, in token of farewell, their sun-bathed pinnacles.†   (source)
  • She vaguely tried to calculate the altitude of the pinnacle from which he must have looked down upon her.†   (source)
  • The bridge is close under the castle hill, an old, high, narrow bridge with pinnacles along the parapet; and you may conceive with how much interest I looked upon it, not only as a place famous in history, but as the very doors of salvation to Alan and myself.†   (source)
  • Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner's dwelling.†   (source)
  • She knew that she hated dinginess as much as her mother had hated it, and to her last breath she meant to fight against it, dragging herself up again and again above its flood till she gained the bright pinnacles of success which presented such a slippery surface to her clutch.†   (source)
  • She supposed him to be emancipated as well as reliable, and placed him on a pinnacle which he could not retain.†   (source)
  • The pinnacle of the mosque had vanished, and the roof line of the college itself looked as if a hundred-ton gun had been at work upon it.†   (source)
  • But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her, and contrived to make her understand that we were seeking a refuge there from her Fear.†   (source)
  • Before Josie had told the news Anne's highest pinnacle of aspiration had been a teacher's provincial license, First Class, at the end of the year, and perhaps the medal!†   (source)
  • But I was still on the way, only, to the supreme pinnacle of happiness; I reached it finally (for not until then did the revelation burst upon me that on the clattering streets, reddened by the light reflected from Giorgione's frescoes, it was not, as I had, despite so many promptings, continued to imagine, the men "majestic and terrible as the sea, bearing armour that gleamed with bronze beneath the folds of their blood-red cloaks," who would be walking in Venice next week, on the…†   (source)
  • There was no weathering slope; the wind had carried away the smaller stones and particles, and had cut the huge pieces of pinnacle and tower into hollowed forms.†   (source)
  • From the window in which they presently found themselves installed, they overlooked the intense blue curve of the harbour, set between the verdure of twin promontories: to the right, the cliff of Monaco, topped by the mediaeval silhouette of its church and castle, to the left the terraces and pinnacles of the gambling-house.†   (source)
  • Now it happens that fifty minutes away from Nauheim, by a good train, is the ancient city of M——, upon a great pinnacle of basalt, girt with a triple road running sideways up its shoulder like a scarf.†   (source)
  • Then the tall pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain and the polished gleam of its walls came back to my memory; and in the evening, taking Weena like a child upon my shoulder, I went up the hills towards the south-west.†   (source)
  • There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cutting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.†   (source)
  • We never did take another look at Beaucaire, of course—beautiful Beaucaire, with the high, triangular white tower, that looked as thin as a needle and as tall as the Flatiron, between Fifth and Broadway—Beaucaire with the grey walls on the top of the pinnacle surrounding an acre and a half of blue irises, beneath the tallness of the stone pines, What a beautiful thing the stone pine is!†   (source)
  • …muscularly together and heightened in perspective, seemed to spring upwards with the effort which the steeple made to hurl its spire-point into the heart of heaven: it was always to the steeple that one must return, always it which dominated everything else, summing up the houses with an unexpected pinnacle, raised before me like the Finger of God, Whose Body might have been concealed below among the crowd of human bodies without fear of my confounding It, for that reason, with them.†   (source)
  • Moonlit pinnacles rushed up at her like the fringes of a sea; then a brief episode of plain, the real sea, and the soupy dawn of Bombay.†   (source)
  • He raised his glance and saw light between row on row of shafts and pinnacles and crags that stood out from the main wall.†   (source)
  • The tall tower, tall belfry windows, and tall pinnacles of the college by the bridge he could also get a glimpse of by going to the staircase.†   (source)
  • Crags and pinnacles, splintered cliffs, and leaning shafts and monuments, would have thundered down to block forever the outlet to Deception Pass.†   (source)
  • …herself so utterly in the outpouring of the spire that her gaze seemed to leap upwards with it; her lips at the same time curving in a friendly smile for the worn old stones of which the setting sun now illumined no more than the topmost pinnacles, which, at the point where they entered that zone of sunlight and were softened and sweetened by it, seemed to have mounted suddenly far higher, to have become truly remote, like a song whose singer breaks into falsetto, an octave above…†   (source)
  • Still, the impression is that you are drawn through brilliant green meadows that run away on each side to the dark purple fir-woods; the basalt pinnacles; the immense forests.†   (source)
  • The road passed between green fields, and coming to a stile Sue paused there, to finish the page she was reading, and then looked back at the towers and domes and pinnacles new and old.†   (source)
  • He asked for the foreman, and looked round among the new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked, or waiting to be removed.†   (source)
  • In the city, the temples, palaces, towers, pinnacles, and all points of beauty and prominence seemed to lift themselves into the unrivalled brilliance, as if they knew the pride they were giving the many who from time to time turned to look at them.†   (source)
  • Though I could almost have consigned her to the mercies of the wind on the topmost pinnacle of the Cathedral, without remorse, I made a virtue of necessity, and gave her a friendly salutation.†   (source)
  • It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn-ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on the right.†   (source)
  • Once advised of this important fact, he hesitated no longer, but commenced the difficult ascent which led to the upper pinnacle of the rock.†   (source)
  • The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.†   (source)
  • The dull brick walls, which here and there made a grand, straight sweep; the ugly little cupolas of the wings, the deep-set windows, the long, steep pinnacles of mossy slate, all mirrored themselves in the tranquil river.†   (source)
  • The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey.†   (source)
  • Mitya was at the pinnacle of happiness.†   (source)
  • That settled, the number of chapels, doors, bell towers, and pinnacles are modified to infinity, according to the fancy of the century, the people, and art.†   (source)
  • The wonderfully architectural appearance of the pillars, arches and pinnacles, surrounding and surmounting this noble entrance, struck me with admiration, resembling parts of a fine gothic cathedral, and inducing me to propose for it the name Cape Minster.†   (source)
  • The son, inheriting his mother's belief, and having the deportment always before him, had lived and grown in the same faith, and now, at thirty years of age, worked for his father twelve hours a day and looked up to him with veneration on the old imaginary pinnacle.†   (source)
  • They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds—they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.†   (source)
  • A second soldier caught from the hands of the dying man the iron crow, with which he heaved at and had loosened the stone pinnacle, when, receiving an arrow through his head-piece, he dropped from the battlements into the moat a dead man.†   (source)
  • Of the gambling-booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were, it seemed, opened; she felt all the difficulty of maintaining herself without hypocrisy and self-conceit on the pinnacle to which she had wished to mount.†   (source)
  • *b If America ever approached (for however brief a time) that lofty pinnacle of glory to which the fancy of its inhabitants is wont to point, it was at the solemn moment at which the power of the nation abdicated, as it were, the empire of the land.†   (source)
  • For a moment of intense terror she paused upon the giddy pinnacle, as if in contemplation of her own sublimity, then trembled and tottered, and--came down.†   (source)
  • The elder maiden is conveyed to a neighboring people, whose lodges are situate beyond yonder black pinnacle of rock; while the younger is detained among the women of the Hurons, whose dwellings are but two short miles hence, on a table-land, where the fire had done the office of the axe, and prepared the place for their reception.†   (source)
  • It was a species of table land, near the summit of an almost inaccessible hill, densely wooded from base to pinnacle, and interspersed with huge crags that appeared to lie loosely upon the soil, and in many cases were prevented from precipitating themselves into the valleys below, merely by the support of the trees against which they reclined.†   (source)
  • It lies in the fact that an historic character like Alexander I, standing on the highest possible pinnacle of human power with the blinding light of history focused upon him; a character exposed to those strongest of all influences: the intrigues, flattery, and self-deception inseparable from power; a character who at every moment of his life felt a responsibility for all that was happening in Europe; and not a fictitious but a live character who like every man had his personal habits,…†   (source)
  • …as always it does lurk, in these suburbs and extremities of nature; let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;[81] and the shop, the plow, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing;—and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and order: there is no trifle, there is no puzzle, but one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.†   (source)
  • As this aristocratic class remains fixed at the pinnacle of greatness on which it stands, without diminution or increase, it is always acted upon by the same wants and affected by them in the same manner.†   (source)
  • The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.†   (source)
  • Thus, while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza, honest Balt would sit smoking his evening pipe at the other, watching the achievements of a little wooden warrior, who, armed with a sword in each hand, was most valiantly fighting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn.†   (source)
  • Then on hearing his destination, she said, "So far away!" in a tone of despair that lifted him on to a pinnacle of hope, but the next minute she tumbled him down again by observing, like one entirely absorbed in the matter….†   (source)
  • Still further, the sea, very rough at this period of the year all along the sea coast, destroyed every day some little vessel; and the shore, from the point of l'Aiguillon to the trenches, was at every tide literally covered with the wrecks of pinnacles, roberges, and feluccas.†   (source)
  • Even that unlucky female, Mrs. Sparsit, fallen from her pinnacle of exultation into the Slough of Despond, was not in so bad a plight as that remarkable man and self-made Humbug, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.†   (source)
  • He felt himself on a pinnacle that made him giddy, and far away down below were all those nice excellent Karenins, Oblonskys, and all the world.†   (source)
  • …of fuel, one of the large springs which abound in that country gushed out of the side of the ascent above, and, after creeping sluggishly along the level land, saturating the mossy covering of the rock with moisture, it swept around the base of the little cone that formed the pinnacle of the mountain, and, entering the canopy of smoke near one of the terminations of the terrace, found its way to the lake, not by dashing from rock to rock, but by the secret channels of the earth.†   (source)
  • When the wise and dread spirit set Thee on the pinnacle of the temple and said to Thee, "If Thou wouldst know whether Thou art the Son of God then cast Thyself down, for it is written: the angels shall hold him up lest he fall and bruise himself, and Thou shalt know then whether Thou art the Son of God and shalt prove then how great is Thy faith in Thy Father."†   (source)
  • For the spectator who arrived, panting, upon that pinnacle, it was first a dazzling confusing view of roofs, chimneys, streets, bridges, places, spires, bell towers.†   (source)
  • As she spoke, a strong light, like that of a brilliant star, was seen on the very pinnacle of the rock; then followed a forked flame, which curled for a moment amid the windings of an enormous pile of brush, and flashing upward in an united sheet, it wavered to and fro, in the passing air, shedding a bright glare on every object within its influence.†   (source)
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