How does the author use imagery in the novel, Mrs. Osmond?

Example of Imagery:

“The great snorting and smoking brute that has paused with brusque impatience at the meek little village station and suffered her to take her place in one of its latermost compartments - her fingertips still retained the impression of hot plush and greasy leather - now stood gasping after its mights efforts under the high, soot-blackened glass canopy of the throbbing terminus, disgorging on to the platform its complement of dazed, bedraggled travellers and their jumbles of baggage.”