What is "pinnacles"

Usage examples of "pinnacles".

Many times the moon hears strange music as it shines on those courts and terraces and pinnacles, but whether that music be the song of the god or the chant of the cryptical priests, none but the King of Ilek-Vad may say.

And they shewed likewise the curious caves near the very topmost pinnacles, and how even the boldest of the Shantaks fly screaming away from them.

He felt from the chill that he must be near the snow line, and looked up to see what glittering pinnacles might be shining in that late ruddy sunlight.

At last far below him he saw faint lines of grey and ominous pinnacles which he knew must be the fabled Peaks of Throk.

Once, too, in the winter-time, as the Rome express stopped at three o'clock in the morning at the frontier on the Italian side of the Mont Cenis tunnel, she had carefully lifted the blind on the right-hand side of the sleeping compartment and had seen a great wall of mountains tower up in a clear frosty moonlight from great buttresses of black rock to delicate pinnacles of ice soaring infinite miles away into a cloudless sky of blue.

True, there were the seracs—those great slabs and pinnacles of ice set up on end and tottering, high above, where the glacier curved over a brow of rock and broke—one of them might have fallen.

And about the ice, and above it, circling it in, black walls of rock towered high, astonishingly steep and broken at the top into pinnacles of an exquisite beauty.

Sylvia took a last look over the wide prospect of jagged ridge, ice pinnacles and rock spires.

Needle spires of rock, glistening pinnacles of ice, they stood dreaming to the moonlight and the stars.

Climbing that mountain, staying for an hour upon its summit in the sunlight with all those great still pinnacles and ice-slopes about me—it was just like hearing very beautiful music.

And at any moment, loosened by the sun, huge blocks and pinnacles might break from them and come thundering down.

He led them boldly to the brink of abysses which were merely channels in the ice, and amid towering pinnacles which seen, close at hand, were mere blocks shoulder high.

Hed left the car in the Pinnacles parking lot a week ago, and hed come back to it this morning and left his gear in the trunk, with the mummy bag.

Before I left you in the Pinnacles I wiped your mind completely, then played the recording into it.

He had gone hiking in the Pinnacles that morning, after a week of backpacking.