Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelting; when an early twilight ushered in a long evening in which many thoughts had time to take root and unfold themselves. In those driving northeast rains which tried the village houses so, when the maids stood ready with mop and pail in front entries to keep the deluge out, I sat behind my door in my little house, which was all entry, and thoroughly enjoyed its protection.

Which is the best example of a vivid sensory detail?
“Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall”
“which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon”
“when the maids stood ready with mop and pail in front entries to keep the deluge out”
“I sat behind my door in my little house, which was all entry, and thoroughly enjoyed its protection”

In literature, a vivid sensory detail refers to details or descriptions that appeal to one of the five sense (sight, smell, touch, and taste), this also implies in vivid sensory details the use of words so precise that they allow the reader to imagine the element or scene being described. Considering this, from the excerpt presented the one that is the best example of a vivid sensory detail is "when the maids stood ready with mop and pail in front entries to keep the deluge out", because this detail or description appeals to the sigh sense and also is the more precise description of a scene which allows the reader to imagine the maids removing the water of the rain, which means this is not only a sensory detail but a vivid one.