The contrast Tolstoy creates between the cold loneliness of the wilderness and the cosy warmth of human habitation is highly effective.
Heady days, when "we sang shang-a-lang as we ran with the gang" (or, indeed, not), and our 30 pints of bitter, made with a starter kit from Boots, sat fermenting in the cosy warmth of Mum's airing cupboard.
… Back in the real world, the poor are dying of the cold while the political elites and their friends bask in the warmth of cosy conferences, taxpayer subsidies and research grants.
A cosy running top that maintains warmth but wicks excess perspiration away, it is beautifully made and sealed and the cut and design is stylish and practical with a tidy pocket for phones tucked in the back.
The cosy atmosphere was in the warmth of the wooden panels, the rawness of the wool, the comfort and ease of the chairs, the softness of the curves throughout the hotel, all in a discreet luxury.
With just 35 bedrooms, three ballrooms and set in a mere 10-square miles of parkland, Highgrove is not an ostentatious, property, and, in the warmth of summer, its cosy intimacy frequently moved the Duchess of Devonshire to tears.
In situations most would find desolate and despairing, Teffi remarkably finds warmth; "it all felt very cosy," she writes, of being held by soldiers in Odessa train station.
'One of the reasons she has the house is to walk in the mountains all day and when she comes home she wants it to be comfortable and warm and cosy.' Eighteenth-century Swedish fireplaces add warmth, while furniture by Jean Prouvé and stools from Gaetano Pesce's futuristic UP series for B&B Italia add modernity.
I, the youngest, was allowed to curl up on her lap, safe and cosy under the heavy blanket and her warmth.
Here is the version for kids - it comes in lovely bright colours, it's 80% wool but with a cosy quilted lining - so no scratch but plenty of warmth.
Inside is a mix of heritage and future-gazing, with Starck's original tiled dance floor restored below Hermes boutique-designer Denis Montel's extraordinary red-lacquered dining room and a cosy, clubby guest lounge beckoning you into its wood-panelled warmth.
