All the nameless heaps of dirt accumulated in the winter now floated over the very thresholds, and the long-imprisoned scents dilated into vapours so penetrating that no retreat was any security from them.

The flood descended into the cellar below our house and destroyed a quantity of powder and tea; a loss irreparable in our situation.
The noise made by the frogs which this inundation produced is almost incredible.

There is strong reason to believe that they outlive the severity of winter.

They have often been found frozen and revived by warmth, nor is it possible that the multitude which incessantly filled our ears with its discordant notes could have been matured in two or three days.
The fishermen at Beaver Lake and the other detached parties were ordered to return to the post.

The expedients to which the poor people were reduced to cross a country so beset with waters presented many uncouth spectacles.