1 "It's as if a dam had burst," said the Cossack hopelessly.
2 Dolokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the slippery ice that covered the millpool.
3 The general on horseback at the entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address Dolokhov.
4 One of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the ice.
5 Crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond.
6 Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered the dam, the pond, and the bank.
7 Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski.
8 He recounted how Raevski had led his two sons onto the dam under terrific fire and had charged with them beside him.
9 But not far from Bald Hills he again came out on the road and overtook his regiment at its halting place by the dam of a small pond.
10 As he crossed the dam Prince Andrew smelled the ooze and freshness of the pond.
11 Everywhere on the bank, on the dam, and in the pond, there was healthy, white, muscular flesh.
12 The officer, Timokhin, with his red little nose, standing on the dam wiping himself with a towel, felt confused at seeing the prince, but made up his mind to address him nevertheless.
13 At Austerlitz he remained last at the Augezd dam, rallying the regiments, saving what was possible when all were flying and perishing and not a single general was left in the rear guard.
14 The dam of repressed imagination which Vida had builded for years, which now, with Raymie off at the wars, she was building again, gave way.
15 Fellow-critters: I'se ordered here to say dat you must stop dat dam noise dare.