I wrote a few verses yesterday about that rose, that flower which represents the pinnacle of my desires, as it were.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
How-no one knows, but the suggestion is that the mass was once banked in by earth, which was washed away, leaving the bare pinnacle of stone.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
Beyond was a ragged pinnacle of stone-the once glorious town hall and a French barracks-and all the broken streets going out to the Cambrai road.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs