Our nerves were jangled, like broken electric wires in the street.
From there, it is a short subway ride to the first site, an abandoned and miserable walk-up apartment with a broken electric heater.
But I don't think we ever had what Honor Tracy found in large Irish houses, where a broken electric doorbell was often replaced by a recycled trumpet.
He even scours and oils a set of old hand shears rather than replace the broken electric ones: "After a few cuts his hand began to ache, but the ache felt good".
Lucas plays a poker-table hustler who mysteriously possesses the precise skills required to lead people through passageways littered with burned bodies and broken electric lines hissing and snapping like cobras.
He also has a mechanical penis that makes a whirring noise when he's aroused that sounds like a broken electric razor.
By breaking down electric currents into sub-bands of different power, the called party is automatically connected by "talking" the number into the transmitter.
Even with government tax breaks, electric vehicles can cost thousands more than their internal combustion counterparts.
The dog, running ahead on leach, broke the electric eye beam which controls the door.
To make bomb emplacement less catastrophically failure-prone, bomb makers searched for devices that could mechanically break the electric circuit.
And back in September the Nemesis broke the electric car land speed record, with an average speed of 244kph.
