Reaching it, I burst into the passage; then, turning quickly, slammed and bolted the door, just as the first of the creatures rushed against it, with a sudden shock.

"Nonsense," cried Dick, bolting two or three mouthfuls, and trying to look as if he liked it.

Then she bolted the gates, and, armed, awaited assistance.

Prior to that time any dog capable, from his size, conformation, and pluck, of going to ground and bolting his fox was a Fox-terrier, were he rough or smooth, black, brown, or white.

Probably he would split the difference, bolt one cup of coffee and one egg, and arrive two and a half minutes late.

"They was all coming 'ome late one night along the Minories, when Ginger Dick gave a shout and, suddenly bolting up a little street arter a man that 'ad turned up there, fust of all sent 'im flying with a heavy punch of 'is fist, and then knelt on 'im. "'Now then Ginger,' ses Sam bustling up with Peter Russet, 'wot's all this?

She went back to the room and bolted the window.

They may not in all cases have the beauty of shape which is desired on the show bench; but it is well to remember that while our show terriers have been bred to the highest perfection we still possess in Great Britain a separate order of "earth dogs" that for pluckily following the fox and the badger into their lairs or bolting an otter from his holt cannot be excelled all the world over.

"They was all coming 'ome late one night along the Minories, when Ginger Dick gave a shout and, suddenly bolting up a little street arter a man that 'ad turned up there, fust of all sent 'im flying with a heavy punch of 'is fist, and then knelt on 'im. "'Now then Ginger,' ses Sam bustling up with Peter Russet, 'wot's all this?

Hence, eat slowly, and do not "bolt" large fragments of food.

When she had put these things together she bolted the upper half of the door, but the under door she raised up and carried away on her shoulder, thinking that certainly the house was well protected if she took such good care of the door!

Tom Ryfe then huddled the letter into his pocket for perusal at leisure, hailed a hansom, and in less than a quarter of an hour was in his uncle's breakfast-room, bolting ham, muffins, and green tea, while his clothes were packed.

They eat, as a horse bolts his chopt hay, with indifference, calmness, and cleanly circumstances.

The car jumped off the mark like a hunter at a hurdle, jumped clear away from the child (who sat down abruptly on the pavé) and bolted down-hill all out.

The latter, after being driven out of the sangars, bolted up the hillside, and again opened fire from among the rocks.

"'O Lord!' said I to myself'to take a ghost as easily as all that!' Bolting up the ladder on my way back to the deck, and trembling lest I should see the ghost popping his head in through one of the gun-deck ports, I ran into Hammond, who dodged me like a shot.

Then Keith bolted up the lane and up the three nights of stairs.

A clergyman suspected!'" Here Mr. Mortimer, warm to his work, let out a laugh so blood-curdling that Old Jubilee bolted the length of his rope.

The jolly old grandfather says to the wild young grandson, 'I have brought you up and educated you, Fred; you have bolted a little out of the course, and you shall never have another chance.'

The jungle being so very small, and he having lain the whole day in it, nothing in the way of vultures or jackals could have assisted him in finishing off the bullock.' When hungry they appear to bolt large masses of flesh without masticating it.

I have been sometimes half inclined to put my manuscripts in the fire, and to exclaim with Dryden, respecting some metaphysical subject "I cannot bolt this matter to the bran.

So it befell that while the newly appointed general counsel of the reorganized Western Pacific was bolting his meals and clipping the nights at both ends in a strenuous endeavor to clear the decks for a possible battle-royal at the capital, events of a minatory nature were shaping themselves elsewhere.

At breakfast he absorbed a glass of milk and a piece of toast, but took longer than I did to bolt melon, bacon and eggs, toast, coffee, and marmalade.

While all eyes were fastened upon him this inglorious ambassador bolted forth his message: "Yo' ma say"his eyes were fixed upon Abner"ef yo' don' come home, she gwine come after yo'an' cut yo' into inch pieces wid a rawhide when she git yo'.

"It would take the police ages to get past that barrier, which would be swung shut and bolted the moment the lookout gave the alarm.