The fortress was a smoldering ruin; charred rafters, fragments of exploded artillery, and rent mason-work covering its earthen mounds in confused disorder.
As it's passed through generations of users, the language slowly turns from a random chaotic one to one of structure with combinations that can be easily remembered.
For the first hour, my senses were so bewildered, and my brain so dizzy, that I strove in vain to arrange the strange images which floated in wild confusion before me.
Massive forces from the ship chaotically whipping through the ocean at such speed help explain why the stern is so badly damaged while the hydrodynamic bow sliced cleanly through the water and remained largely intact.
This phantom wore many faces, but it always had golden hair, was enveloped in a diaphanous cloud, and floated airily before his mind's eye in a pleasing chaos of roses, peacocks, white ponies, and blue ribbons.
The death-like looking figure of the Mohican, and the dark form of the Huron, gleamed before their eyes in such quick and confused succession, that the friends of the former knew not where to plant the succoring blow.