2382 examples of bolts in sentences

You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea.

nobody ever brings him any water, and Mr. Trius even turns the key and bolts the door before he goes to him.

You never heard of Humboldt's complaining that any one had stolen his thunder,he knew that no one could lift his bolts.

It seemed to be innocent of bars and bolts.

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

" The bolts of both doors grated, and the hinges creaked at the same instant.

The bolts turned, and the door opened.

It was the strong-room of the milk; and, when the grim old guardian of the dairy unlocked the door, with a sound of rusty locks and falling bolts, there, cool and cloistral, were the fragrant pans and bowls, the most sacred vessels of the farm.

can man e'er bind thee? Can overseers quench thy flame? Can dungeons, bolts, or bars confine thee, Or threats thy Heaven-born spirit tame? Or threats thy Heaven-born spirit tame?

Luckily, the sole fastenings of the lid consisted of two sliding bolts.

It was double-locked, as he had locked it with his own hands, and the bolts were undisturbed.

The second door being fastened on the inside, all I had to do was to push back the bolts and unscrew the box of the lock.

II Summer was smiting Our Square with white-hot bolts of sun-fire, from which one could scarcely find refuge beneath the scraggly shelter of parched shrubbery, when one morning the Bonnie Lassie approached my bench with a fell and purposeful smile.

Scottish gentlemen, And thinkKing Robert's here!" The trumpets blew, the cross-bolts flew, The arrows flashed like flame, As spur in side, and spear in rest, Against the foe we came.

No more barriers, no more bolts, no more doors, no more pretences, no more social chains, no more terrible father, no more servant-mistress; Suzanne alone remained in all her youthful grace and her chaste nudity.

The fire broke out in the lantern, and burning downwards, drove the men, who in vain attempted to extinguish it, from chamber to chamber; until at last, to avoid the falling of the timber, and the red hot bolts, they took refuge in a cave on the east side of the rock, where they were found at low water in a state little short of stupefaction, and conveyed to Plymouth.

Thou mayest shut up thy Doors, says he, with Bars and Bolts: It will be impossible for the Blacksmith to make them so fast, but a Cat and a Whoremaster will find a Way through them.

We entered together the gloomy vestibule, and a moment later were let out through the wicket into the courtyard; and as the lock clicked behind us, we gave a simultaneous sigh of relief to find ourselves outside the precincts of the prison, beyond the domain of bolts and bars.

There were bolts of cheap cotton prints, red and yellow flannels, bright-bordered handkerchiefs, glass beads, necklaces, chains, brass finger rings, earrings, pocket looking-glasses and divers other knickknacks dear to the hearts of aborigines.

The jeweller shot back the bolts, and half-a-dozen neighbours, headed by the butcher opposite, clad in his nightgown and armed with a cleaver, burst into the passage.

In those early days, when good roads were unknown and wagons few, shafts were attached to each hogshead by iron bolts driven into the heads, and the cask was thus turned into a huge roller.

An innocent love like theirs never bolts the door.

Cross-bows shot darts called quarrels, or quarreaux, or quadrels, and in English bolts: they were headed with solid, square pyramids of iron, and sometimes trimmed with brass instead of feathers.

Wherefore keep strict guard upon the portals of your houses with bolts and bars.

" Bolts and bars were what the gallant Greek men kept their wives under, hence this custom too is here slyly justified out of a woman's mouth.

2382 examples of  bolts  in sentences