All 3 Uses of
ebb
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Eternal flood and ebb of popular favor!†
Chpt 1.1.4 *ebb = decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- If a flood comes, the mountains will have long disappeared beneath the waves, while the birds will still be flying about; and if a single ark floats on the surface of the cataclysm, they will alight upon it, will float with it, will be present with it at the ebbing of the waters; and the new world which emerges from this chaos will behold, on its awakening, the thought of the world which has been submerged soaring above it, winged and living.†
Chpt 1.5.2ebbing = declining -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- In proportion as architecture ebbs, printing swells and grows.†
Chpt 1.5.2ebbs = declines -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide