133 Verbs to Use for the Word bolt

He twisted the child's arm, struck him savagely from time to time, and for no reason but that the child did not sit bolt upright and keep absolutely motionless.

I would have given much, to rush at it, fling it to, and shoot the bolts; for I have had it repaired and strengthened, so that, now, it is far stronger than ever it has been.

For some minutes I stood there; then, very gradually and cautiously, I drew back the bolt and opening the door peeped out.

"Then you can place the facts before me without the slightest hesitation," he said, going to the door and slipping the bolt into its socket.

I glance down, quickly, and realize, with an unspeakable terror, that my foot is pushing back the lower bolt.

He was standing bolt upright with his back to the wind, a tuft of snow piled on his square shoulders, a monument of passive endurance.

His narrowed, covetous eyes held her while one hand behind his back slid the bolt into place.

But sighing, Beltane closed his vizor and heedless of flying bolt and arrow strode to the narrow stair that led up to the gate-tower and being come there sat him down beside the great mangonel.

She hastened to withdraw the bolts and open the door.

Rose-Red accordingly pulled back the bolt, expecting to see some poor man.

As soon as the housemaid had left the room I quietly let myself out by the French window, which I closed behind me but could not fasten, went out at the side gate and closed that also behind me, holding the bolt of the latch back with my pocket-knife so that I need not slam the gate to shut it.

" He at once tried it at the dungeon door, and turned the bolt with ease.

The strength of all the Guard cannot hold it, if they were tied to it, she would blow 'em out of the Kingdom, they talk of Jupiter, he's but a squib cracker to her: Look well about you, and you may find a tongue-bolt.

He flung himself against the door with so much of violence that he broke the thick wooden bolt and fell upon the floor.

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

I am at the door, and, in a mechanical way, I watch my hand go forward, to undo the topmost bolt.

My first impulse was to rise and fasten the bolt, my next to cry: "Who is there?"

And then a sudden thought brought me bolt upright.

After the last cartridge is ejected the chamber is closed by first thrusting the bolt slightly forward to free it from the stud holding it in place when the chamber is open, pressing the follower down and back to engage it under the bolt and then thrusting the bolt home; the trigger is pulled.

At the feeding time, the man has only to raise this bolt and let it fall on the inner side, and he has the whole length and width of the trough free to clear with a broom and to fill with the feed.

Further, we know not from one day to another whether we may not be absolutely necessitated to excommunicate that fautor of Gallicanism, Louis the Fourteenth, and before launching our bolt at a king, we may think well to test its efficacy upon a rat.

So terrible did he look that they turned and ran in terror; but Captan, furious at the destruction of his gates, sent three bolts of lightning after them.

No sooner was Facundo set at liberty, than he snatched the bolt of the prison-gate, from the very hand which had just withdrawn it to set him free, crushed the Spaniard's skull with the heavy iron, and swung it right and left, until, according to his own statement, made at a later date, no less than fourteen corpses were stiffening on the ground.

" One of the most feeble and aged of the board turned around and hastened, as fast as his infirm limbs would permit him, and threw the bolt with feverish haste, and then ran back again to hear.

He unfastened the bolts without haste.

133 Verbs to Use for the Word  bolt