A forest surrounded the lake.

Which is the best way to revise this sentence using descriptive detail and sensory words?

A forest surrounded the lake that was in the middle of the trees.
A forest of trees sat in a circle around the round lake in the center.
A thick forest of scratchy pines surrounded the crystal clear lake.
A green forest went around a lake in the middle that was blue.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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