Which statement most clearly sets the men in opposition to the antagonist? . . . a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, . . .

. . .and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man—man who is the most restless of life, . . .

It freezes the water to prevent it from running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts;

The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous.