Bolted

Examples

• Holmes edged his way round the wall and flinging the shutters together, he bolted them securely. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He hastily bolted it behind her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I'm obliged to bring you this way, sir, he said, because the door from the vestry to the church is bolted on the vestry side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Buffer says he knows a man who married a bathing-woman, and bolted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Not a casement was found unfastened, not a pane of glass broken; all the doors were bolted secure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This door also was composed of solid oak, and was bolted at the top and bottom on the vestry side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To the faces of these rolls were bolted a series of heavy, chilled-iron plates containing a number of projecting knobs two inches high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Another method, which is safe and cheap, consists in using a saturated solution of hyposulphite of soda to which a little bolted whiting has been added. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• No one could pass these shutters if they were bolted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He threw away the extinguished candle, which, all this time he had held above his head, and fairly bolted into the sedan-chair where Mrs. Dowler was. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When I tried it, it was bolted on the inside. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Ah, it bolted, and was cared for by one of your neighbors. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• And with another prolonged grin, the old man closed the gate, re- entered his house, and bolted the door after him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It would suit us best, but it is bolted as well as locked, and we should make too much noise getting in. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Bucket immediately got rid of the bearers, mysteriously shut the door, and bolted it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The great classe-doors are close shut: they are bolted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The mounts of the other two warriors turned squealing in terror, and bolted in opposite directions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Everything was bolted and barred that could by possibility furnish relief to an overworked people. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I had found the front door locked and bolted, as I had left it at night, when I went to open it, after getting up. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He flung him in, bolted it, and turned the key. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• To my amazement, it was neither locked nor bolted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the contrary, said I, I bolted my door. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was bolted, but they thought they heard him moving within. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He was now thoroughly alarmed; and hastily putting on his clothes he descended to the front door, which he himself had bolted and locked. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• When the frame has been bolted to the legs, stretchers or braces are placed within. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Three days after that, he bolted. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I can't get a word from him, and when I threatened to shake the truth out of him he bolted upstairs and locked himself into his room. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The shops as a rule were not raised from the ground nor were their doors bolted or barred, since thievery is practically unknown upon Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Here the honest but inflexible servant clapped the door to and bolted it within. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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