All 3 Uses of

dilemma
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hung by the populace for waiting, hung by the cardinal for not having waited, he saw between the two dilemmas only an abyss; that is to say, a gallows.†
Chpt 1.1.2 *

dilemmas = situations in which difficult choices must be made between imperfect alternatives

After having run for some time at the top of his speed, without knowing whither, knocking his head against many a street corner, leaping many a gutter, traversing many an alley, many a court, many a square, seeking flight and passage through all the meanderings of the ancient passages of the Halles, exploring in his panic terror what the fine Latin of the maps calls ~tota via, cheminum et viaria~, our poet suddenly halted for lack of breath in the first place, and in the second, because he had been collared, after a fashion, by a dilemma which had just occurred to his mind.†
Chpt 1.2.6

dilemma = a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives

If I possessed an expedient for extricating her from a dilemma, without compromising my own neck to the extent of a single running knot, what would you say to it?†
Chpt 2.10.1