All 8 Uses of
foliage
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- "How happy they are to see all that!" sighed Joannes de Molendino, still perched in the foliage of his capital.†
Chpt 1.1.1 *foliage = plant leaves
- The trunk of a tree is immovable; the foliage is capricious.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- He dreamed of no other hedgerows than the painted windows, always in flower; no other shade than that of the foliage of stone which spread out, loaded with birds, in the tufts of the Saxon capitals; of no other mountains than the colossal towers of the church; of no other ocean than Paris, roaring at their bases.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- Traditions had brought forth symbols, beneath which they disappeared like the trunk of a tree beneath its foliage; all these symbols in which humanity placed faith continued to grow, to multiply, to intersect, to become more and more complicated; the first monuments no longer sufficed to contain them, they were overflowing in every part; these monuments hardly expressed now the primitive tradition, simple like themselves, naked and prone upon the earth.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- It becomes bare, denuded of its foliage, and grows visibly emaciated.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- The balcony on which these young girls stood opened from a chamber richly tapestried in fawn-colored Flanders leather, stamped with golden foliage.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.†
Chpt 2.9.4
- Around what capital have you seen foliage more tender and better caressed by the chisel.†
Chpt 2.10.1