A sense of freshness came from the woods, though round the post it was still hot.
The voices of the talking Cossacks vibrated more sonorously than before.

The moving mass of the Terek's rapid brown waters contrasted more vividly with its motionless banks.

The waters were beginning to subside and here and there the wet sands gleamed drab on the banks and in the shallows.

The other side of the river, just opposite the cordon, was deserted; only an immense waste of low-growing reeds stretched far away to the very foot of the mountains.

On the low bank, a little to one side, could be seen the flat-roofed clay houses and the funnel-shaped chimneys of a Chechen village.