A hail of bolts from the bows crashed into it with no effect.
As she chanted her Magic Song the bolts softly drew back, the doors softly opened.
The palace doors were all heavily bolted, but Medea did not have to pull back the bolts.
Locks and bolts made no difference to a knook, and he saw as well in darkness as in daylight.
Without thunderclaps, lightning bolts would be much less frightening, although the danger lies in the flash, not the noise.
No bows nor slings nor bolts they bore, But bills and pikes ill-made; And none but Colan bore a sword, And rusty was its blade.
The compass was well housed in a case perfectly square, and well balanced by its two copper frames placed horizontally, one in the other, on little bolts, as in Cardan's lamps.
It was for him to shoot the bolts and lift the bars; but he went about it so clumsily and with such evident aversion to the task, that the sergeant instinctively sprang to help him.