Both Uses of
pinnacle
in
Rose Red
- 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).†
Chpt 3
- 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.
Chpt 3 *pinnacles = high towers
Definition:
the highest point -- either literally, like the top of a mountain, or figuratively, like the peak of success or achievement