Bolting

Examples

• Stage-coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats were overturning, and boilers were bursting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She saw Lupton bolting towards her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Uriah,' said I, bolting it out with some difficulty. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Don't make such a row,' said Sikes, bolting the door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• We're three on us--it's no use bolting, the man behind said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then you are not in the habit of bolting your door every night before you get into bed? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• At first, bolting cloth was used for the screen, but at present two glass plates, with closely ruled lines, laid crosswise upon each other, form the screen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Been bolting his food, has he? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Carefully he lifted Tarzan to the cot, and then, after closing and bolting the door, he lighted one of the lamps and examined the wound. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It was like welshers bolting from a racecourse to escape a ducking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I'd knock your head off for half-a-crown,' said the surly groom, bolting one half of the gate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• You hear him bolting and chaining the door within. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Edited by Henry