A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.

This sentence vividly describes the scene through action. The reader can not only envision the clock but also the weather and town.