The restaurant doors flew open, and the delegation flowed out like water through a broken dam.

He made a single, simple gesture, and power began to pour into him as if it were water from a broken dam.

Blood was everywhere, flooding out of Smith's carotid like a broken dam.

I hadn't meant to, but when I looked into his eyes, my pain and grief poured out like a river through a broken dam.

Several cairns also were made near the broken dam for those killed by the Krakenward during the drilling.

Cotton ate his evening meal, then sat once more atop the broken dam and watched the labor at the far wall.

Then the pain began, sudden and intense, rushing through him with the force of floodwaters set free from a broken dam.

But now we've got to-" Ask the broken dam to hold back the flood.

The broken dam was constructed much according to the ordinary practice in such works.

"And we're draining energy faster than a broken dam."