All 6 Uses of
flying buttress
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Behind the Bastille there were twenty hovels clustered round the curious sculptures of the Croix-Faubin and the flying buttresses of the Abbey of SaintAntoine des Champs;†
Chpt 1.3.2flying buttresses = arches or half-arches that transfer thrust from an upper part of a wall to a lower support
- At Notre-Dame it was a tiny cell situated on the roof of the side aisle, beneath the flying buttresses, precisely at the spot where the wife of the present janitor of the towers has made for herself a garden, which is to the hanging gardens of Babylon what a lettuce is to a palm-tree, what a porter's wife is to a Semiramis.†
Chpt 2.9.2
- What harm does it do if a poor girl takes shelter under the flying buttresses of Notre-Dame, beside the swallows' nests?†
Chpt 2.10.1
- All at once, a hundred torches, the light of which glittered upon the helmets of men at arms, spread over the church at all heights, on the towers, on the galleries, on the flying buttresses.†
Chpt 2.11.1 *
- At the moment when his thought was thus fixed upon the priest, while the daybreak was whitening the flying buttresses, he perceived on the highest story of Notre-Dame, at the angle formed by the external balustrade as it makes the turn of the chancel, a figure walking.†
Chpt 2.11.2
- When, at the turn of the gallery which opens on the roof of the side aisles, he perceived the tiny cell with its little window and its little door crouching beneath a great flying buttress like a bird's nest under a branch, the poor man's heart failed him, and he leaned against a pillar to keep from falling.†
Chpt 2.11.2
Definition:
an arch or half-arch that transfers thrust from an upper part of a wall to a lower support