Both Uses of
ravage
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- This hope was speedily dispelled like his other illusions; silence had indeed, been restored in the audience, after a fashion; but Gringoire had not observed that at the moment when the cardinal gave the order to continue, the gallery was far from full, and that after the Flemish envoys there had arrived new personages forming part of the cortege, whose names and ranks, shouted out in the midst of his dialogue by the intermittent cry of the usher, produced considerable ravages in it.†
Chpt 1.1.4ravages = destroys or damages
- Thus, to sum up the points which we have just indicated, three sorts of ravages to-day disfigure Gothic architecture.†
Chpt 1.3.1 *
Definition:
to destroy or damage; or damaging effects