Then a woman's hand quietly unbolts the door and receives the little wanderer back.

"It is close and musty here, with all this old tapestry and stuff about; I'll open the other window," she thought; and, noiselessly slipping from Amy's side, she threw on wrapper and slippers, lighted her candle and tried to unbolt the tall, diamond-paned lattice.

The Baron unlocked a door and unbolted some shutters.

He saw him putting on an outside-coat and hat, near the yard gate; and then, with great caution, unbolt the wicket, constantly looking back towards the house, and so let himself out.

Quietly she unbolted the door and allowed it to open an inch while she peered at the man outside.

He walked over to the full-length windows and opened them; then he unbolted the jalousies outside and swung them back.

970. unfetter &c 751, untie &c 43; loose &c (disjoin) 44; loosen, relax; unbolt, unbar, unclose, uncork, unclog, unhand, unbind, unchain, unharness, unleash; disengage, disentangle; clear, extricate, unloose.

she would have them taste at once some of that happiness with which her heart was overflowing, and so did with her own hands unbolt the gates and set them wide, bidding the halting wretches come in and warm themselves.

And now, with less fear of encountering Mrs. Godwin than Black Bogey, she feels her way down the dark, narrow staircase, reaches the lower door, unbolts it, and steps out on the path at the back of the house.

Thus had he explained the unbolted window.

"When you went to your room," he asked, "did you find the window again unbolted?" "No," she replied.

She had been troubled, greatly troubled, to find her window unbolted on two successive nights after she had taken care to bolt it.

Yet on the third night she actually unbolts it herself and leaving it unbolted puts out her light and goes to bed.

Yet on the third night she actually unbolts it herself and leaving it unbolted puts out her light and goes to bed.

Mr. Ralston wondered why, after complaining that my window was unbolted, I unbolted it myself.

Mr. Ralston wondered why, after complaining that my window was unbolted, I unbolted it myself.

No sooner had she made this dreadful out-cry, but I heard her lady's door, with hasty violence, unbar, unbolt, unlock, and open, and my charmer's voice sounding like that of one going into a fit.

The man, who spoke all by the count's direction, then told her, that if she would not open the door, he must be obliged to break it, and presently beat so violently against it, that the poor terrified Louisa expected it to burst, so thought it would be better to unbolt it of her own accord, than, by a vain resistance, provoke worse usage than she might otherwise receive: but what was her astonishment when she beheld the count de Bellfleur!

I'll unbolt to you.

At last I contrived to unbolt it again, and got out, when they laughed still more, at the seat of my trousers being torn off.

If she heard her husband turn, enter the hallway, and unbolt the door, she made no sign.

"I heard him unbolt the front door.

I repeated the manoeuvre of pretending to unbolt the door, and smiled as I heard him literally dancing with frenzy inside.

Before leaving us our captain had said: "Do not unbolt your door except to the password 'Burgundy.'

In the stillness she could hear him open the drawing-room door, then cross the hall and finally unbolt the heavy outer door.