"Bolt down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw. Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant butchers over the deck-table are .. thus cannibally carving each other's live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks, also, with their ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... was passing quickly through my mind, she suddenly made another bolt down the valley, and, when directly opposite our position, turned at right angles, crossed the brook, and came straight through the alders into the open, not eighty yards away from us. As she made her appearance I ...
— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various |
