例文・使い方で印象づける「pinnacle」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... At last Tarzan stoodbalanced upon the very utmost pinnacle of a swaying branch, high abovethe forest... 
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
... And a new life begins for us—a new time, a life as cold as that of a man who sits on the pinnacle of an iceberg and sees the glittering crystals all about him...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...If so it was a fortunate accident, for it served as the tiny fulcrum on which to place the point of that mighty lever which was destined ere long to raise him to the pinnacle of canine erudition...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...After fixing her booty on the verdant pinnacle, the Pompilus casts around for a favourable spot and digs her burrow...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...And in order to secure the full advantage of authority, the supreme ruler must be raised to the highest possible pinnacle, must be apotheosized...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...The cover ofthe round ones is in the shape of a tholus, a buildingshaped something like a beehive, the tiles being representedby acanthus leaves, and the pinnacle by a bunch offlowers...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...The south-east angle turret hasbeen crowned with a pinnacle, but the corresponding turretat the north-east still remains truncated...
Anonymous 「Ely Cathedral」
...Finial—the ornament which finishes the top of a pinnacle, a canopy,or a spire, usually carved into a bunch of foliage...
Dugald Butler and Herbert Story 「Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys」
...It may once have had a pinnacle, but none nowremains...
Hubert C. Corlette 「Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901)」
...In a grim and silent rank before Beelzebub's feet, stood some six oreight priest-executioners bending their black-robed bodies against thestrong wind which swept that ghastly pinnacle...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...It was a jagged pinnacle of rock, which, just before Brown had fired,had been straight ahead...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...And upon that highest pinnacle, thatchanced to be just below the ruddy star, was an astounding machine...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
...We stood at last on a buttelike pinnacle...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930」
...The prime factor of Greek philosophy was the insistence on intelligenceand knowledge, and by these means it reached its pinnacle of reasoning...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
...Is ithis superior musculature and brute strength that has placed man uponhis present pinnacle of advanced civilization...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
...For two days did this bewilderment last, and on the third he came to a mighty cliff that pierced with its blunt pinnacle the clustering bush...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...For what purpose the natives couldhave made or cleared these places I cannot tell; they were reserved forsome ceremonies, no doubt, like those at Gill's Pinnacle...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...On the 14th of July we left the place, and travelled along my formerroute, via Gill's Pinnacle, and all the other watering-places mentionedin my preceding narrative...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
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