Bolts

Examples

• I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The ponderous bolts grated into place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The wood was imported in bolts or pieces three feet long. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He drew back the bolts with a trembling hand, and opened the door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Bolts a bit of bread and butter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Although not shown in the sketch, there is in practice a number of bolts passing through these two sets of molds at various places to hold them together in their relative positions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Bolts or ratchets are inserted through the rail, and clamp the cushion to the wall of the rail. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A team of horses couldn't draw her back now; the bolts and bars of the old Bastille couldn't keep her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It is useful for the making of chains, tools, carriage axles, joining shafting, wires, and pipes, mending bands, tires, hoops, and lengthening and shortening bolts, bars, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Among the smaller self-acting engines, the forging machine for making bolts attracts attention by the rapidity of its action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• What was his discomfiture, when he heard the chain and bolts withdrawn, and saw the door slowly opening, wider and wider! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• On the cheap grades there are no blind rails, the bolts being decorated with brass caps. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I heard the key turn, and the bars and bolts slowly removed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He stopped on hearing some one at the locks and bolts and did not resume until the door had been opened and was shut again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Instead of bothering with bolts and bars for their dwellings, the red Martians simply run them up out of harm's way during the night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It had even stripped some of the threads of the bolts, and we could never find that cover. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I have heads for cross-bow bolts in it, said Gurth, readily. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He had been sitting on a bench there and had risen when he heard the locks and bolts turn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Now flowed forth, as from some Vulcan's titanic workshop, machines for making bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, chains, staples, car wheels, shafts, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• All around the outside edge they are bored for the insertion of the bolts to fasten the cushion rails to the slate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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