No great damage has been done by the gales.

My observing-seat came thundering down the roof one evening, about ten o'clock, but all the world understood its cry of 'Stand from under,' and no one was hurt.

Several windows were blown in at midnight, and houses shook so that vases fell from the mantelpieces.
"The last snow drifted so that the sleighing was difficult, and at present the storm is so smothering that few are out.

A.has been out to school every day, and I have not failed to go out into the air once a day to take a short walk.
"January 24.

We left the mercury one below zero when we went to bed last night, and it was at zero when we rose this morning.