Sentence: Looking down from this pinnacle upon the howling Phlegethon below, I could not help smiling at the simplicity with which the honest Jonas Ramus records, as a matter difficult of belief, the anecdotes of the whales and the bears for it appeared to me, in fact, a selfevident thing that the largest ship of the line in existence, coming within the influence of that deadly attraction, could resist it as little as a feather the hurricane, and must disappear bodily and at once.
Combination: a feather the hurricane (root: feather, modifier: hurricane)
Property: destructive
Property type: canceled