All 3 Uses of
squall
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The last vibration of the twelfth stroke had hardly died away when all heads surged like the waves beneath a squall, and an immense shout went up from the pavement, the windows, and the roofs, "There she is!"†
Chpt 2.8.6squall = windy storm
- At Dom Claude's proposition, the open and benign face of the poet had abruptly clouded over, like a smiling Italian landscape, when an unlucky squall comes up and dashes a cloud across the sun.†
Chpt 2.10.1 *
- Instead of her pretty little Agnes, so rosy and so fresh, who was a gift of the good God, a sort of hideous little monster, lame, one-eyed, deformed, was crawling and squalling over the floor.†
Chpt 1.6.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(squall as in: a squall blew in) sudden strong winds; or a storm -- usually at sea or in the snow
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, squall can refer a loud cry or any commotion or disturbance such as an argument.