Vocabulary Word
Word: pinnacle
Definition: peak; highest point; acme; Ex. pinnacle of fame
Definition: peak; highest point; acme; Ex. pinnacle of fame
Sentences Containing 'pinnacle'
Though I could almost have consigned her to the mercies of the wind on the topmost pinnacle of the Cathedral, without remorse, I made a virtue of necessity, and gave her a friendly salutation.
Accordingly one day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly say I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.
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