All 50 Uses of
edifice
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- , can easily reconstruct in their minds the aggregate of edifices to which it belonged, and find again entire in it the ancient Gothic place of the fifteenth century.†
Chpt 1.2.2
- By day, one could admire the variety of its edifices, all sculptured in stone or wood, and already presenting complete specimens of the different domestic architectures of the Middle Ages, running back from the fifteenth to the eleventh century, from the casement which had begun to dethrone the arch, to the Roman semicircle, which had been supplanted by the ogive, and which still occupies, below it, the first story of that ancient house de la Tour Roland, at the corner of the Place…†
Chpt 1.2.2
- And on that fact and that basis he began to construct a fantastic edifice of hypothesis, that card-castle of philosophers; then, suddenly returning once more to reality, "Come!†
Chpt 1.2.5
- The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic and sublime edifice.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- Time has caused the staircase to disappear, by raising the soil of the city with a slow and irresistible progress; but, while thus causing the eleven steps which added to the majestic height of the edifice, to be devoured, one by one, by the rising tide of the pavements of Paris,—time has bestowed upon the church perhaps more than it has taken away, for it is time which has spread over the facade that sombre hue of the centuries which makes the old age of monuments the period of their…†
Chpt 1.3.1
- And if we enter the interior of the edifice, who has overthrown that colossus of Saint Christopher, proverbial for magnitude among statues, as the grand hall of the Palais de Justice was among halls, as the spire of Strasbourg among spires?†
Chpt 1.3.1
- He would remember that it was the color with which the hangman smeared "accursed" edifices; he would recall the Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, all smeared thus, on account of the constable's treason.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- They have cut to the quick; they have attacked the very bone and framework of art; they have cut, slashed, disorganized, killed the edifice, in form as in the symbol, in its consistency as well as in its beauty.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- This edifice is not a type.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- Notre-Dame de Paris has not, like the Abbey of Tournus, the grave and massive frame, the large and round vault, the glacial bareness, the majestic simplicity of the edifices which have the rounded arch for their progenitor.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- It is an edifice of the transition period.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- However, these edifices of the transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic, are no less precious for study than the pure types.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- The edifices which belong exclusively to any one of these three layers are perfectly distinct, uniform, and complete.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- Hence, complex monuments, edifices of gradation and transition.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- There is Notre-Dame de Paris, a pointed-arch edifice, which is imbedded by its pillars in that Roman zone, in which are plunged the portal of Saint-Denis, and the nave of Saint-Germain des Prés.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- However, all these shades, all these differences, do not affect the surfaces of edifices only.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- Hence, the prodigious exterior variety of these edifices, at whose foundation dwells so much order and unity.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- But these are the principal masses which were then to be distinguished when the eye began to accustom itself to this tumult of edifices.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- And when the glance passed these bridges, whose roofs were visibly green, rendered mouldy before their time by the vapors from the water, if it was directed to the left, towards the University, the first edifice which struck it was a large, low sheaf of towers, the Petit-Chàtelet, whose yawning gate devoured the end of the Petit-Pont.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- The amusingly varied crests of these beautiful edifices were the product of the same art as the simple roofs which they overshot, and were, actually, only a multiplication of the square or the cube of the same geometrical figure.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Lastly, in the intervals of these roofs, of these spires, of these accidents of numberless edifices, which bent and writhed, and jagged in so eccentric a manner the extreme line of the University, one caught a glimpse, here and there, of a great expanse of moss-grown wall, a thick, round tower, a crenellated city gate, shadowing forth the fortress; it was the wall of Philip Augustus.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- …then Gothic, pointed, charming; Saint-Magloire, a fine nave of the fourteenth century, which Napoleon turned into a hayloft; Notre-Dame des Champs, where there were Byzantine mosaics; lastly, after having left behind, full in the country, the Monastery des Chartreux, a rich edifice contemporary with the Palais de Justice, with its little garden divided into compartments, and the haunted ruins of Vauvert, the eye fell, to the west, upon the three Roman spires of Saint-Germain des Prés.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- These four edifices filled the space from the Rue des Nonaindières, to the abbey of the Celestins, whose spire gracefully relieved their line of gables and battlements.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- …pointed and lofty roof of the modern palace, bristling with carved eaves, covered with sheets of lead, where coiled a thousand fantastic arabesques of sparkling incrustations of gilded bronze, that roof, so curiously damascened, darted upwards gracefully from the midst of the brown ruins of the ancient edifice; whose huge and ancient towers, rounded by age like casks, sinking together with old age, and rending themselves from top to bottom, resembled great bellies unbuttoned.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Beneath them, at the foot of the formidable edifice, behold the Porte Sainte-Antoine, buried between its two towers.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- There were also fine edifices which pierced the petrified undulations of that sea of gables.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- The old Louvre of Philip Augustus, that immense edifice whose great tower rallied about it three and twenty chief towers, not to reckon the lesser towers, seemed from a distance to be enshrined in the Gothic roofs of the Hôtel d'Alencon, and the Petit-Bourbon.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- …the left by two blocks of palaces, crowned, the one by the Louvre, the other by the Tournelles, bordered on the north by a long girdle of abbeys and cultivated enclosures, all amalgamated and melted together in one view; upon these thousands of edifices, whose tiled and slated roofs outlined upon each other so many fantastic chains, the bell towers, tattooed, fluted, and ornamented with twisted bands, of the four and forty churches on the right bank; myriads of cross streets; for…†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Between la Courtille and Saint-Laurent, your eye had already noticed, on the summit of an eminence crouching amid desert plains, a sort of edifice which resembled from a distance a ruined colonnade, mounted upon a basement with its foundation laid bare.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Now, if the enumeration of so many edifices, summary as we have endeavored to make it, has not shattered in the reader's mind the general image of old Paris, as we have constructed it, we will recapitulate it in a few words.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- , at the Hôtel de Ville, two edifices still in fine taste;—the Paris of Henri IV.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- , in the Pantheon: Saint Peter of Rome, badly copied (the edifice is awkwardly heaped together, which has not amended its lines);—the Paris of the Republic, in the School of Medicine: a poor Greek and Roman taste, which resembles the Coliseum or the Parthenon as the constitution of the year III.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- An edifice ought to be, moreover, suitable to the climate.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- It is true that the architect was at a good deal of trouble to conceal the clock face, which would have destroyed the purity of the fine lines of the facade; but, on the other hand, we have that colonnade which circles round the edifice and under which, on days of high religious ceremony, the theories of the stock-brokers and the courtiers of commerce can be developed so majestically.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Make its contour float in a winter's mist which clings to its numerous chimneys; drown it in profound night and watch the odd play of lights and shadows in that sombre labyrinth of edifices; cast upon it a ray of light which shall vaguely outline it and cause to emerge from the fog the great heads of the towers; or take that black silhouette again, enliven with shadow the thousand acute angles of the spires and gables, and make it start out more toothed than a shark's jaw against a…†
Chpt 1.3.2
- It is useless to warn the reader not to take literally all the similes which we are obliged to employ here to express the singular, symmetrical, direct, almost consubstantial union of a man and an edifice.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- What he loved above all else in the maternal edifice, that which aroused his soul, and made it open its poor wings, which it kept so miserably folded in its cavern, that which sometimes rendered him even happy, was the bells.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- One would have said that he made the immense edifice breathe.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- Again, it is certain that the archdeacon had been seized with a singular passion for the symbolical door of NotreDame, that page of a conjuring book written in stone, by Bishop Guillaume de Paris, who has, no doubt, been damned for having affixed so infernal a frontispiece to the sacred poem chanted by the rest of the edifice.†
Chpt 1.4.5
- Daedalus is the base; Orpheus is the wall; Hermes is the edifice,—that is all.†
Chpt 1.5.1
- The archdeacon gazed at the gigantic edifice for some time in silence, then extending his right hand, with a sigh, towards the printed book which lay open on the table, and his left towards Notre-Dame, and turning a sad glance from the book to the church,—"Alas," he said, "this will kill that."†
Chpt 1.5.1
- The Nile rat kills the crocodile, the swordfish kills the whale, the book will kill the edifice.†
Chpt 1.5.1
- The book will kill the edifice.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- The symbol felt the need of expansion in the edifice.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- …the arcade, which is a syllable; the pyramid, which is a word,—all set in movement at once by a law of geometry and by a law of poetry, grouped themselves, combined, amalgamated, descended, ascended, placed themselves side by side on the soil, ranged themselves in stories in the sky, until they had written under the dictation of the general idea of an epoch, those marvellous books which were also marvellous edifices: the Pagoda of Eklinga, the Rhamseion of Egypt, the Temple of Solomon.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- The generating idea, the word, was not only at the foundation of all these edifices, but also in the form.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- Thus the word was enclosed in an edifice, but its image was upon its envelope, like the human form on the coffin of a mummy.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- And not only the form of edifices, but the sites selected for them, revealed the thought which they represented, according as the symbol to be expressed was graceful or grave.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- The cathedral itself, that edifice formerly so dogmatic, invaded henceforth by the bourgeoisie, by the community, by liberty, escapes the priest and falls into the power of the artist.†
Chpt 1.5.2
Definition:
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(edifice) a building or structure -- especially a large one
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework