Pinnacle

(noun.) (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower.

(noun.) a lofty peak.

(verb.) raise on or as if on a pinnacle; 'He did not want to be pinnacled'.

(verb.) surmount with a pinnacle; 'pinnacle a pediment'.

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• Up, up he went to the waving pinnacle of a lofty monarch of the forest where his heavy pursuer dared not follow him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• You give me joy in telling me that you are 'on the pinnacle of _content_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• How could she have pretended love, and raised him to such a pinnacle of hope only to cast him down to such utter depths of despair! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• This news precipitated me from my self-raised pinnacle of honour. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• That's what puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I will hang thee out to feed the ravens, from the very pinnacle of thine own castle. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In an instant Holmes had raced up on to the ridge, and, standing upon a lofty pinnacle, craned his neck in every direction. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• On the topmost pinnacle of Gibraltar we halted a good while, and no doubt the mules were tired. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I know a secret entrance to the palace through the pinnacle of the highest tower. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• 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. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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