| 1. | Inglethorp bolt the door after you. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | Strongest was he by whom such bolt were sent-. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3. | Aunt Isabel was sitting bolt upright, as usual. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 4. | Springing forward he drew the bolt and threw the door open. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | True, we did not know whence, or how, or when, the bolt would come. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 6. | Suddenly something in the bolt itself seemed to rivet his attention. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 7. | "Enough all shall bolt out at once, like the bullet from the barrel. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 8. | 'There's a bolt at the top, you won't be able to reach,' interposed Toby. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | A bolt drawn back and Walter welcomes me. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 10. | He fumbled over the bolts and chain. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 11. | The windows yielded easily--their bolts were old. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 12. | He drew back the bolts with a trembling hand, and opened the door. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 13. | The bolts No, I told him about them. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 14. | I found I could pull back the bolts easily enough and unhook the great chains. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 15. | His triple thunder, and his bolts of fire.. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 16. | Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 17. | Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 18. | Till Jove himself descends, his bolts to shed. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |