Word: bolting
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...opened down the back like the puffy blouses worn by the women who rode in them. Then the later Packards, with the lined hood that still distinguishes them, appeared; gigantic limousines, touring cars like towers, and snorting red racers. The windshields were rimmed with brass; the men who sat bolt upright behind them wore alpaca dustcoats...
...complete state. Now at least a step has been taken toward his identification, but if he is inclined to come forth at last from his long seclusion it is to be feared that upon perceiving that he has cast ahead of him such a shadow as this, he may bolt back into hiding like the ground hog to wait for a more favorable opportunity...
...never been honestly satisfied when he pushed back his chair and left it. But John Jeffrey, his valet, seemed to admire its neat construction; he kept Byron's shaving apparatus neatly tucked away in a hidden compartment which could be opened only by pulling a certain brass bolt...
...created baronet in 1910), politics have been a duty and a tool. They gave influence to his affluence. He was one of Lloyd George's Liberals; became First Commissioner of Works, then Minister of Health in Lloyd George's War cabinet. Later he was to bolt the Liberal Party, declare himself a Conservative and fret Lloyd George into sneering that he had abandoned the Liberals because "he saw poor prospects for an ambitious man" in sticking to them (TIME...
Rhodes' House is in no sense a rendezvous for undergraduate Rhodes Scholars, according to a statement made by Sir Otto Bolt; Senior Truston of the Fund. The spirit of the Rhodes bequest demands that the Scholars mingle with other men in their own colleges...