All 38 Uses of
abrupt
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Our readers have been able to observe, that a certain amount of time must have already elapsed from the moment when Jupiter had retired beneath the tapestry to the instant when the author of the new morality had thus abruptly revealed himself to the innocent admiration of Gisquette and Liénarde.†
Chpt 1.1.2abruptly = suddenly and unexpectedly
- In the meantime, the actors had obeyed his injunction, and the public, seeing that they were beginning to speak again, began once more to listen, not without having lost many beauties in the sort of soldered joint which was formed between the two portions of the piece thus abruptly cut short.†
Chpt 1.1.2
- All at once, in the very middle of a quarrel between Mademoiselle Merchandise and Madame Nobility, at the moment when Monsieur Labor was giving utterance to this wonderful line,— In forest ne'er was seen a more triumphant beast; the door of the reserved gallery which had hitherto remained so inopportunely closed, opened still more inopportunely; and the ringing voice of the usher announced abruptly, "His eminence, Monseigneur the Cardinal de Bourbon."†
Chpt 1.1.2
- Then the Brotherhood of Fools, their first stupor having passed off, wished to defend their pope, so abruptly dethroned.†
Chpt 1.2.3
- "Whence comes this chill?" he said abruptly, to himself.†
Chpt 1.2.5
- All at once she began to sing in a barely articulate voice,— ~Quando las pintadas aves, Mudas estan, y la tierra~—* * When the gay-plumaged birds grow weary, and the earth— She broke off abruptly, and began to caress Djali.†
Chpt 1.2.7
- That was, in fact,—when, after having long groped one's way up the dark spiral which perpendicularly pierces the thick wall of the belfries, one emerged, at last abruptly, upon one of the lofty platforms inundated with light and air,—that was, in fact, a fine picture which spread out, on all sides at once, before the eye; a spectacle ~sui generis~, of which those of our readers who have had the good fortune to see a Gothic city entire, complete, homogeneous,—a few of which still remain, Nuremberg in Bavaria and Vittoria in Spain,—can readily form an idea; or even smaller specimens, provided that they are well preserved,—Vitré in Brittany, Nordhausen in Prussia.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- When, at length, after having contemplated the University for a long time, you turned towards the right bank, towards the Town, the character of the spectacle was abruptly altered.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- This young brother, without mother or father, this little child which had fallen abruptly from heaven into his arms, made a new man of him.†
Chpt 1.4.2
- The only gate which nature had left wide open for him had been abruptly closed, and forever.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- All of a sudden, the frenzy of the bell seized upon him; his look became extraordinary; he lay in wait for the great bell as it passed, as a spider lies in wait for a fly, and flung himself abruptly upon it, with might and main.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- Cut the primitive bed of a river abruptly with a canal hollowed out below its level, and the river will desert its bed.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- It is probable that the spectacle which at that moment attracted all looks in that direction, would have made them forget completely the Rat-Hole, and the halt which they intended to make there, if big Eustache, six years of age, whom Mahiette was dragging along by the hand, had not abruptly recalled the object to them: "Mother," said he, as though some instinct warned him that the Rat-Hole was behind him, "can I eat the cake now?"†
Chpt 1.6.3
- At the moment when she looked in, a profound pity was depicted on all her features, and her frank, gay visage altered its expression and color as abruptly as though it had passed from a ray of sunlight to a ray of moonlight; her eye became humid; her mouth contracted, like that of a person on the point of weeping.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- A child who innocently blows upon the badly ignited fuse of a bomb, and makes it explode in his face, is no more terrified than was Mahiette at the effect of that name, abruptly launched into the cell of Sister Gudule.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- All at once he turned abruptly to Gringoire once more.†
Chpt 2.7.2
- Meanwhile, the forgotten bells died away abruptly and all together, to the great disappointment of the lovers of bell ringing, who were listening in good faith to the peal from above the Pont du Change, and who went away dumbfounded, like a dog who has been offered a bone and given a stone.†
Chpt 2.7.3
- "Monsieur le Procureur du Roi," said Pierrat abruptly, "How shall we begin?"†
Chpt 2.8.2
- Meanwhile, after several moments of triumph, Quasimodo had plunged abruptly into the church with his burden.†
Chpt 2.8.6
- Claude Frollo was no longer in Notre-Dame when his adopted son so abruptly cut the fatal web in which the archdeacon and the gypsy were entangled.†
Chpt 2.9.1
- At the sight of that villanous form which made its appearance so abruptly in the middle of her song, the young girl paused with an involuntary gesture of alarm.†
Chpt 2.9.4
- The gypsy, who had advanced to the threshold of her cell, beheld with surprise their roles abruptly changed.†
Chpt 2.9.6
- You change the conversation very abruptly.†
Chpt 2.10.1
- 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
- He controlled himself and said with tranquil severity,— "Gossip Jacques, you enter very abruptly!"†
Chpt 2.10.5 *
- Here he interrupted himself abruptly, bit his lips as though to take back his thought which had already half escaped, bent his piercing eyes in turn on each of the five persons who surrounded him, and suddenly grasping his hat with both hands and staring full at it, he said to it: "Oh!†
Chpt 2.10.5
- The king surveyed them for a moment without uttering a word, then addressing the first one abruptly,— "What's your name?"†
Chpt 2.10.5
- When the recluse saw this, she rose abruptly on her knees, flung aside her hair from her face, then let her thin flayed hands fall by her side.†
Chpt 2.11.1
- All at once the man kicked away the ladder abruptly, and Quasimodo, who had not breathed for several moments, beheld the unhappy child dangling at the end of the rope two fathoms above the pavement, with the man squatting on her shoulders.†
Chpt 2.11.2
- He stiffened himself upon the spout, pushed against the wall with both his knees, clung to a crevice in the stones with his hands, and succeeded in climbing back with one foot, perhaps; but this effort made the leaden beak on which he rested bend abruptly.†
Chpt 2.11.2
- The reader can now judge of the effect produced upon him by the abrupt and unseasonable arrival of the cardinal.†
Chpt 1.1.3
- "La Esmeralda!" said Gringoire, stupefied in the midst of his emotions, by the abrupt manner in which that magic word knotted together all his reminiscences of the day.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- It is quite certain that you have not, more than once (and for my part, I have passed whole days, the best employed of my life, at it) followed from thicket to thicket, by the side of running water, on a sunny day, a beautiful green or blue dragon-fly, breaking its flight in abrupt angles, and kissing the tips of all the branches.†
Chpt 1.2.7
- At the sound of this clear, fresh, ringing child's voice, the recluse trembled; she turned her head with the sharp, abrupt movement of a steel spring, her long, fleshless hands cast aside the hair from her brow, and she fixed upon the child, bitter, astonished, desperate eyes.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- On the agitation of his web, the enormous spider made an abrupt move from his central cell, then with one bound, rushed upon the fly, which he folded together with his fore antennae, while his hideous proboscis dug into the victim's bead.†
Chpt 2.7.5
- With the abrupt leap of that spider which we have seen fling itself upon a fly at the trembling of its web, she rushed to her air-hole, which opened as the reader knows, on the Place de Grève.†
Chpt 2.8.5
- "So it appears," said the gossip, who still stammered, utterly astounded by the abrupt and inexplicable change which had just taken place in the king's thoughts.†
Chpt 2.10.5
- And turning with an abrupt gesture towards the sturdy Fleming,— "Have you never seen a revolt, Master Jacques?"†
Chpt 2.10.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(abrupt as in: an abrupt change) sudden and unexpected
or (less commonly): characterized by sudden changes or at a steep angle -
(2)
(abrupt as in: she is abrupt) rude or unfriendly because of using too few words or moving too quickly