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Bolts in sentence

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All three arrived like bolts from the blue.
But those committed to helping Africa should focus squarely on the nuts and bolts of aid and development – and that means investing in local leadership.
But the UK no longer produces screws and bolts.
An IMF managing director, therefore, will necessarily have some exposure to the nuts and bolts of monetary policy.
She looked at the bottom of the trucks, at the bolts and chains and large iron wheels of the slowly-moving front truck, and tried to estimate the middle point between the front and back wheels, and the moment when that point would be opposite her.
Without a sound, with the soft bound of a nocturnal beast, the iron cage arose from the night, wedged itself on the bolts with its four decks, each containing two trains full of coal.
But the noise of the bolts fixing themselves, the sensation of solidity beneath, suddenly cheered him; and he was joking when he said to Catherine:"What have you got under your skin to be so warm?
It's completely decked over, absolutely watertight, and held solidly in place by bolts.
I undo the bolts holding the skiff to the submersible, and the longboat rises with prodigious speed to the surface of the sea.
Without thunderclaps, lightning bolts would be much less frightening, although the danger lies in the flash, not the noise.
We'll stick ourselves inside, undo the bolts, and rise to the surface, without the helmsman in the bow seeing a thing."
Stationed on the top steps, one of the seamen undid the bolts of the hatch.
Natasie came downstairs shivering and undid the bars and bolts one after the other.
Julien made sure that the door was fastened with all its bolts; he even thought of looking under the bed, but dared not; they might have hidden a footman or two there.
Her father watched over her and she watched over herself; for there are no locks, or guards, or bolts that can protect a young girl better than her own modesty.
Dost thou not know, thou miserable little licentiate, that I can do it, being, as I say, Jupiter the Thunderer, who hold in my hands the fiery bolts with which I am able and am wont to threaten and lay waste the world?
She is no reaper that sleeps out the noontide; at all times she is reaping and cutting down, as well the dry grass as the green; she never seems to chew, but bolts and swallows all that is put before her, for she has a canine appetite that is never satisfied; and though she has no belly, she shows she has a dropsy and is athirst to drink the lives of all that live, as one would drink a jug of cold water."
What was his discomfiture, when he heard the chain and bolts withdrawn, and saw the door slowly opening, wider and wider!
All at once he heard his bolts drawn, and made a terrified bound.
M. Bonacieux, who was ignorant that d’Artagnan had overheard his conversation with the stranger of Meung, related to his young tenant the persecutions of that monster, M. de Laffemas, whom he never ceased to designate, during his account, by the title of the "cardinal’s executioner," and expatiated at great length upon the Bastille, the bolts, the wickets, the dungeons, the gratings, the instruments of torture.
D’Artagnan heard the door close; then the noise of two bolts by which Milady fastened herself in.
With one spring he flew from the chamber of Milady into that of the maid, and quick as lightning, he slammed to the door, and placed all his weight against it, while Kitty pushed the bolts.
"Quick, Kitty, quick!" said d’Artagnan, in a low voice, as soon as the bolts were fast, "let me get out of the hotel; for if we leave her time to turn round, she will have me killed by the servants."
It was a chamber whose furniture was at once appropriate for a prisoner or a free man; and yet bars at the windows and outside bolts at the door decided the question in favor of the prison.
The bolts were drawn; the door groaned upon its hinges.
I know them with their puttied seams and their devil bolts, risking five hundred lives that they may steal a few pounds' worth of copper.
Not only had the copper sheathing and the planks disappeared, reduced, no doubt, to powder, but also the ribs, the iron bolts, and treenails which united them.
From the planks and injured ribs Pencroft and Ayrton had extracted the bolts and a large quantity of copper nails.
"I have heads for cross-bow bolts in it," said Gurth, readily.
Reuben, a dark-brow'd and black-bearded Israelite, obeyed her summons, with a torch in his hand; undid the outward door of the house, and conducting Gurth across a paved court, let him out through a wicket in the entrance-gate, which he closed behind him with such bolts and chains as would well have become that of a prison.
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