The void vanished like a pricked bubble.

When the void went, it went like a pricked bubble, just gone, in a twinkling.

Rand drew a deep breath, and abruptly it was all gone like a pricked bubble.

Dress and shift burst away from her body like a pricked bubble.

The cold vanished like a pricked bubble, and he was in the midst of endless blackness, the light of his pole-lantern a crushed pool around him.

In the next instant Akbar's image burst like a pricked bubble.

As suddenly as a pricked bubble the chill vanished, and he was outside.

The moon itself diminished and vanished like a pricked bubble.