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You simply can't whirl into town at a thirty-mile gait I am speaking now of Pinnacle, whose street was a gravelly creek bed quite dry and ridgy between rains and stop in twice the car's length without scouring more rubber off your tires than a capacity load of passengers will pay for. Besides, you run short of passengers if you persist in doing it.
That man who can appreciate the feelings of one who has become suddenly bankrupt may understand the mental condition of those on board the Great Eastern when they were thus tossed from the pinnacle of joyous hope to the depths of dark despair. It was not, however, absolute despair. The cable was utterly useless indeed insensate but it was not broken.
The pinnacle of all human ambition, the crown of Charles the Great, lay glittering before his longing eyes on the altar of the Prince of the Apostles. The Pope, however, first placed a ring on the finger of the Anointed, as symbol of the faith, the permanence and strength of his Catholic rule; with similar formulæ girt him with the sword, and finally placed the crown upon his head.
The one on the pinnacle of military glory exulting in the success of schemes planned with wisdom, & executed with vigor and bravery and above all see a country saved by his exertions.
Such an action would render the liberties of a thousand republics a mockery, a snare, and a delusion, and their names infamous throughout the world. And the time of us Englishmen will come next our day of infamy! unless we show ourselves worthy that transcendant position in which Providence has placed us, at the pinnacle of the empires of Earth, as the leaders and champions of universal freedom.
But all this would not do. The Mice pursued him to his Island, and the tale ends in his being devoured by them there. On both sides the river hills covered with vines and woods rose abruptly, and on the right, tottering on a pinnacle that frowns over the flood, stood the Castle of Ehrenfels....
She forgot for the moment clear-headed woman though she was, and trained by her philosopher to "know herself" she forgot what she had fully acknowledged only the night before: That he would no more give up his Christ than she would her Isis, and that if they should ever reach the dreamed-of pinnacle of joy it must be for an instant only, followed by a weary length of misery.
This bursts out, young and irresponsible, in pinnacle, crocket, and gable, in towers like spears, and in the eager lancet windows which peer upwards out of Orsammichele and the Dominican Church. This mixture is Florence and has made her art.
Both men had such a strong position in the Republican party that it was a pity they couldn't understand each other. I suppose they were too unlike Gambetta lived in an atmosphere of flattery and adulation. His head might well have been turned all his familiars were at his feet, hanging upon his words, putting him on a pinnacle as a splendid patriot.
He left the Basin, rode around behind it and, leaving Rabbit in the thicket where he had left him the day before, he toiled up the pinnacle and sat down in the shelter of a boulder pile where he would be out of the wind as well as out of sight, and where he could still stare somberly down at the cabin.
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