I confess myself as unable to supply any better suggestion for a comparison.

Nor shall I attempt to describe the picture in any considerable detail.

I only know that for the first time in my life I realized the full and adequate meaning of the word chaos.

The proper definition of it was spread broadcast before my eyes.
Appreciating the impossibility of comprehending the full scope of the disaster which here had befallen, or of putting it concretely into words if I did comprehend it, I sought to pick out small individual details, which was hard to do, too, seeing that all things were jumbled together so.

This had been a series of cunningly buried tunnels and arcades, with cozy subterranean dormitories opening off of side passages, and still farther down there had been magazines and storage spaces.