Significados de dammed back en inglés

The obstruction of indifference dammed back the water of life.

Hurried on by the pressure of water long dammed back, the logs tumbled forward.

Jesus Christ never dammed back tears when tears were wholesome, and would bring blessing.

The spontaneous workings of the heart are not to be dammed back by ceremonial laws.

This to a certain extent dammed back the water.

His new-found purpose and energy, thus suddenly dammed back and checked, boiled up in frantic rage.

The upwelling of their emotion was too sincere to be dammed back by barriers of law and custom.

Like a tremendous clock ticking, the water, momentarily dammed back, was released in a torrent to the electrolysis vats.

When Christ was on earth, man's want of faith dammed back His miracle-working power, and paralysed His healing energy.

There was a small pool at the end of the river, dammed back by sand and full of white water lilies and needle-like reeds.

Now, although you might expect that the water being dammed back just here, it would be shallow below the dam, it was just the opposite.