I assume it's there to stop people from throwing themselves from the stairs and landing in a broken heap.

Invisible force smashed the urZrethi into the wall and he slid to the floor in a broken heap.

The second hits the kite, which slides off the roof and lands on the ground in a broken heap.

The ice at the glacier's snout lay in graying, broken heaps across the frozen ground.

Any moment it would buck, toss her, white broken heap, on to the gleaming floor.

He went down in a broken heap.

I saw Eagle crumpled in a broken heap under immense chunks of ice.

I thought, and had an image of myself crumpling into a broken heap on the ground, maybe five stories below.

On that was a broken, ragged heap of tumbled- down stone walls while a tower in its middle pointed a finger to sunset clouds.

He lay in a broken heap where he landed.