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Definition of Pinnacling
1. pinnacle [v] - See also: pinnacle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnacling
Literary usage of Pinnacling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots (1818)
"... the murder of a father, He will return to build that father's house, pinnacling
it high in vengeance !—Feeble spirit! Is this a time for tears ? ..."
2. Observations in Europe: Principally in France and Great Britain by John Price Durbin (1844)
"... or in building up and pinnacling those aerial summits, on whose sky- peaks an
eagle might grow dizzy as he looked into the yawning chasms below. ..."
3. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1839)
"There should be no flutter, no pinnacling in the outline ; all should be in calm
and dignified repose ; and the whole mass be such as that, ..."
4. White Mountain Trails: Tales of the Trails to the Summit of Mount Washington by Winthrop Packard (1912)
"Something drove mighty waves through the land from the west, sent them pinnacling
five and six thousand feet above the sea level, and froze them there. ..."
5. A Colored Man Round the World by David F. Dorr (1858)
"ON a little slip of land between the gulf of Lepante and Athens, we come to
Corinthe; we know it not, save a few immense pillars of marble pinnacling the ..."
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