All 10 Uses of
succession
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Let the reader imagine all these grotesque figures of the Pont Neuf, those nightmares petrified beneath the hand of Germain Pilon, assuming life and breath, and coming in turn to stare you in the face with burning eyes; all the masks of the Carnival of Venice passing in succession before your glass,—in a word, a human kaleidoscope.
Chpt 1.1.5succession = sequence (one after another)
- I tried all in succession.
Chpt 1.2.7 *
- The mighty city had cracked, in succession, its four enclosures of walls, like a child grown too large for his garments of last year.
Chpt 1.3.2
- …the churches dominated the whole; and, like one harmony more in this mass of harmonies, they pierced in quick succession the multiple open work of the gables with slashed spires, with open-work bell towers, with slender pinnacles, whose line was also only a magnificent exaggeration of the acute angle of the roofs.
Chpt 1.3.2
- From the "Master of Sentences," he had passed to the "Capitularies of Charlemagne;" and he had devoured in succession, in his appetite for science, decretals upon decretals, those of Theodore, Bishop of Hispalus; those of Bouchard, Bishop of Worms; those of Yves, Bishop of Chartres; next the decretal of Gratian, which succeeded the capitularies of Charlemagne; then the collection of Gregory IX.
Chpt 1.4.2
- He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Chpt 1.4.5
- Lead requires only four periods of two hundred years each, to pass in succession from the state of lead, to the state of red arsenic, from red arsenic to tin, from tin to silver.
Chpt 1.5.1
- A wooden shaft, which set in motion a capstan concealed in the interior of the little edifice, imparted a rotatory motion to the wheel, which always maintained its horizontal position, and in this manner presented the face of the condemned man to all quarters of the square in succession.
Chpt 1.6.4
- CHAPTER I. GRINGOIRE HAS MANY GOOD IDEAS IN SUCCESSION.
Chpt 2.10.1succession = a row (one after another)
- Saint-Sophia at Constantinople, forty years ago, hurled to the earth three times in succession, the crescent of Mahom, by shaking her domes, which are her heads.
Chpt 2.10.4succession = sequence (one after another)
Definition:
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(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)