A cold wind blasted the rose plants.

Inside her chamber, the cushiony touch of her carpeted floor was cloudlike.

The French, seeing things in this confusion, brought to, and lay by their own disabled ship, re-manned and took her into tow.

[…] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings […]