“(Dumas) just went ahead to bolt across the street and probably wasn't as careful as he should have been.”
Alan Clapsaddle
“What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!”
William Wordsworth
“I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ”
William James
“It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted”
Proverb
“Underneath every bush you'll find a mud rabbit ready to bolt”
“Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.”
Virginia Woolf
“No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra