All 3 Uses of
torrent
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- There was nothing to be done but to allow one's self to drift with the torrent.†
Chpt 1.1.4 *
- In the meanwhile, she wept in torrents, in silence, in the dark, like a rain at night.†
Chpt 2.11.1torrents = overwhelming amounts
- Then great tears fell, one by one, from her eyes; they flowed down her cheeks through a furrow, like a torrent through a bed which it has hollowed for itself.†
Chpt 2.11.1
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water