The cost of this pinnaclewas defrayed by Mr. Beresford Hope.
The corresponding pinnacle on the north is still wanting.
Its rock formations are fine, being of white quartz, and on the eastern side is a detached cliff with a huge pinnacle nearly a hundred feet high, known as the "Pulpit.
The portion of the works overlooking the St. Lawrence is called the Grand Battery, while the surmounting pinnacle of the Citadel, containing a huge Armstrong gun, is the King's Bastion.
Yet for Glaucon when standing even on that calm pinnacle the trireme must creep over the deep too slowly.
Glaucon stood on the easternmost pinnacle of the Rock, watching the landscape.
The secretary, whose name was Risk, had the address to supplant the other two at the time they thought themselves at the pinnacle of their glory, overawing every Turk, and robbing every Christian.
Tarenta is the highest pinnacle of that long, steep chain of mountains which, running parallel to the Red Sea, forms the boundary of the seasons.
This pinnacle was called Damo, and it was here that the heirs male of the royal family of Abyssinia were imprisoned until the massacre of the princes by Judith.
I gained a fresh insight into the peculiar dignity of big theatrical representations, which in their several parts could, by well-accentuated rhythm, be made to attain the highest pinnacle of art.
The top of one pinnacle took the shapely, clean-cut form of a rabbit's head, in the inkiest silhouette, while it rested against the moon.
But circumstances over which I have no control has taken me and placed me on the high pinnacle of Corporal, and I must bow to the decree of fate.
Before him, pinnacle after pinnacle towered up a mighty Alp, blazing in the morning sun.
The lofty rolling snow-downs had changed to dull lead colour, as the sun went down in a red haze behind them; only here and there some little elevated pinnacle would catch the light.
At the pinnacle of his power and success the new comptroller-general fell into no illusion as to the danger of the position.
Yet this pinnacle had its more particular supports--or antecedents.
Henceforth philosophy and theology were set on opposite pinnacles, only with theology's pinnacle the higher.
He was indeed thepinnacle of scholasticism; set upon all the rest.
When Sivaji was enthroned in 1674 he proclaimed himself as Pinnacle of the Kshatriya race and Lord of the Royal Umbrella.
And when an eclipse occurs they say that the sun and moon have gone behind a pinnacle or tower of the heavens.
Similarly in Hindu temples the pinnacle often stands on a circular stone base, probably representing an umbrella.
Polly, hearing these comments, was greatly amused by them, and inwardly commended herself for having brought it about that a girl who had never been called popular should in her last year of college be near the pinnacle of popularity.
All had a vision of Bowen sitting in judgment upon them and mentally comparing Galvin House with Park Lane; for in Bayswater Park Lane is the pinnacle of culture and social splendour.
Mrs. Craske-Morton, in announcing the advent of a new arrival, reached the pinnacle of refinement.
Mr. Triggs reached the highest sartorial pinnacle of his career in a light grey, almost white frock-coated suit with a high hat to match, a white waistcoat, and a white satin tie.
Let the island continue subsiding, and the coral-reef will continue growing up on its own foundation, whilst the water gains inch by inch on the land, until the last and highest pinnacle is covered, and there remains a perfect atoll.
Edwin soon followed with Murray, gladly arriving in time enough to see their little pinnacle draw up under the castle and throw out her moorings.
Thus were they situated, when the news of Wallace's decisive victory, distancing all their means to raise him who was now at the pinnacle of power, determined the dubious to become at once his mortal enemies.
The guards are kept busy with spears and spades trying to keep the ventilators and the pinnacle area free of snow and ice so we can have air.
One of the guards from the pinnacle came down and reported that the soldiers had ceased fighting the populace and, joining cause with them, were attempting to scale the pyramid by cutting steps in the icy surface.
He placed art on the highest pinnacle of the temple of humanity, but dedicated that temple to the God of heaven in whom he believed.
What raised Plato to the highest pinnacle of intellectual life?
The Fort and the Signal Tower on the pinnacle opposite and the English flag flying over all were hidden from his sight.
Carrel and all the men who had been with me knew of the existence of this cleft, and of the pinnacle which rose between it and the final peak;(67) and we had frequently talked about the best manner of passing the place.
On his right sat Harriet, having reached the firstpinnacle of her new career.
It takes courage to step down from the pinnacle you stood on.
In the middle of a tortuous valley there rises up an immense pinnacle and on the pinnacle are four castles--Las Tours, the Towers.
St. James the Less was thrown from a pinnacle or wing of the temple and then beaten to death with a fuller's club.
To go to architecture for an instance, a pinnacle is retained, not that it is of any use where it is, but in another kind of building it would have been.
Yet it must have seemed to many who knew him, and to himself, like enough, that Mark Twain at forty had reached the pinnacle of his fame and achievement.
This is bound to set us up on a high and holy pinnacle and make us look down in cold rebuke on persons who carry their axes to strangers.
But soon the white clouds come trooping along in ghostly squadrons and mingle together in heavy masses a quarter of a mile below you and shut out everything-completely hide the sea and all the earth save the pinnacle you stand on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinnacle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
