A hand dropped abrupt as iron on Rachel's shoulder; it might have been a bolt from heaven.
They asserted their opinion; and Tinker asserted his, with the result that his bolt into the Salles de Jeu and his difficult extrication from them by the brawny, but liveried officials was fast becoming one of the events of the day.
As the train ran into London, he told her that Mr. Biggleswade was in the train, and they mustbolt for the cab.
Of a sudden his terrible omission flashed into his mind: in his patient application to the task of shadowing and annoying Mr. Arthur Courtnay he had forgotten his daily bolt into the gambling rooms.
The one practice he did not suffer to fall into desuetude was his daily bolt into the Salles de Jeu; of that she could always be a secure and interested spectator.
Sometimes Tinker would make hisbolt from the outermost portal; sometimes, with the decorous air of one going to church, he would join the throng filing into the concert room, and bolt from the midst of it.
The process of expulsion was always conducted with the greatest courtesy on either side; for his bolt had become an agreeable variety in the monotonous lives of the guardians; they never knew when or in what fashion it would come next.
The damsel accordingly retired and shut the door of the apartment, to which she added the precaution of drawing a largebolt on the outside.
This explained a great drumming and whining at the door of the little parlour, which had somewhat surprised Brown, though his kind landlady had only noticed it by fastening the bolt as soon as she heard it begin.
From within there was a noisy yawn, a rustle, the sound of an overturning stool, and, lastly, the rasp of a boltbeing withdrawn.
That implement he had fashioned for himself with infinite pains out of a door-bolt some twenty inches long, which he had found discarded in a rubbish-heap in a corner of the attic where he had been allowed to take his brief daily exercise.
Using as a whetstone a small slab of black marble, similarly acquired, he had shaped that bolt into a sharp octagonal-pointed chisel or spontoon.
Bolt Court, formerly Bensley's Printing Office, ** but earlier still the last residence of Dr.
But if Bolt Court prove unstimulating, you have only to take a few steps to the right, and you arrive, somewhat unexpectedly, in a little parallelogram at the back, known as Gough Square.
The Pharisees would shake and cower, for fear that at any moment they might be struck dead by a bolt from heaven.
The epistle of Jude is nothing but a bolt hurled at the head of Paul, from the hand of one who assumed the name of an apostle.
I'll bet 'e shot the moon, did a bolt for it, when 'e mobilised.
It fitted: the bolt was thrown back, and the door pushed open.
Tom gave a kick, the other bolt creaked, and he entered the den.
They listened intently, and heard the supper-party resettle themselves, and then gently drew back first one bolt and then the other.
As the latter young gentleman had nothing but his trousers, slippers, and coat on over his nightshirt, he deemed it prudent to bolt as soon as chapel was over, so as to elude the vigilant eyes of the authorities.
Rose sat bolt upright with an astonished face: this was such an entirely unexpected sort of remark for the philosopher to make.
Presently I managed to work the thin end between the door and the lintel, and then, throwing my whole weight against it, endeavoured to force the outer bolt from its fastenings.
Now look here, my dear Magnus, don't let sentiment take the bit in its teeth and boltwith you, or else we shall have a smash.
They're sure to make a bolt for it on a day like this.
He drew back the bolt and, after opening the door again, stood listening on the landing.
Raskolnikoff watched with terror thebolt trembling in the socket, expecting to see it shoot back at any moment, so violent were the jerks given to the door.
It occurred to him to hold the bolt in its place with his hand, but the MAN might have found it out.
Well, to bolt one's door, one must be at home, you understand.
May the seventy-seven limited thunder-bolt strike you on St. Michael's Day!
He drew himself bolt upright, as if his backbone had suddenly been straightened by a spring.
When on reaching Victoria I made a bolt for your carriage and found that the woman was not there, I saw that my worst fears were realised.
She sat in front of me, bolt upright on her chair, her hands clasped in her lap, eating nothing, and saying nothing either.
More than once, even in the middle of the night, I nearly made a bolt of it.
What so easy as to fill up thebolt hole with cherry stones?
Thus the old lady, without troubling to get out of bed, could bolt or unbolt her door at will, and so long as the cylinder was down, no one could possibly enter the room.
Anyhow, it came to his mind that if he could quietly fill up the hole into which the boltof his mistress's bedroom door dropped, he might help himself to as much money as he needed.
He turned and moved to intercept her but awkwardly and she slammed the door in his face, catching the bolt on the inside.
As he shot this bolt at her, he watched its effect.
And Moira obeyed, catching the bolt into its place and turning with an air very little mollified.
The widow of an old farmer had just died, and her daughter told my father that it was well that there was a bolt to the front door, for that the key must not be turned in the lock whilst the body lay in the house.
The torpedo-room door is fastened by a bolt on the outside, so he'll have no trouble in getting them out.
How long Matt slept he did not know, but he was awakened by the throb of a motor and started bolt upright in his bed.
We are improving in this respect and no longer bolt our dinners.
Or hast thou gorge and room To bolt fat porpoises and dolphins whole By dozens, e'en as oysters we consume?
If any one suggests coming out here, bolt the windows after you.
He sat bolt upright in his chair, and he kept his hat upon his head.
The rocking-bar is designed to prevent the withdrawal of the locking-bolt before all the vehicles have passed over the points.
Whichever of the points 334 be used, they must be set, and bolt locked for the main line before the train staff and its key can be withdrawn from the ground frame and restored to the engine-driver.
An ordinary spike may be used for the inside end of chair, and a crab bolt with bent washer for the other.
The tie-bar passes through the loop end of the same bolt which secures the rail, and is held up tight against the under side of sleeper.
The bolt is pushed down through the hole bored in the sleeper, and the crab-nut put on from underneath.
With the four right and left handed bolts the operation of tightening, or removing, the fish-plates was very tedious, as each bolt had to be turned a very little at a time, one after the other.
A large number of flange rails are used with one hole through the flange at each end of rail, and a crab bolt passed through the hole and through the sleeper next to the joint, as shown in Fig.
This casting has an internal groove or chamber formed for its entire length from C to D, as indicated by the dotted lines, and in which slides the locking-bolt B.
Assuming the fish-bolt holes to be spaced as shown on Fig.
A bolt-hole is punched in the edge of the flange of check-rail, and a crab bolt and clip holds the two rails on the sleeper.
Many devices have been invented to prevent or check this loosening of the bolts; one of the methods, and a very simple one, consists of a plain steel bolt with a steel lock-nut, made as shown in Fig.
By making the neck square or pear-shaped, to fit into corresponding hole in the fish-plate, the bolt is prevented from turning round when the wrench or spanner is applied to tighten the nut.
In some cases an extra large trenail is used with an augur-hole down the centre, through which either an iron spike is driven or a bolt is passed and screwed into a crab-nut on the under side of the sleeper.
He who controlled the Nile was Khnemu, and when this god drew the bolt of the doors which shut in the stream, and smote the earth with his sandals, the river rushed forth.
The bolt went home, and he and his family suffered.
