I had often admired it and I knew my way about in it; I had only, after just faltering at the first chill gloom of its disuse, to pass across it and
unbolt as quietly as I could one of the shutters.
She knew a small side door which she could
unbolt herself and she flew downstairs in her stocking feet and put on her shoes in the hall.
"He can't possibly get out anywhere, and as soon we 've cut up the candy, we 'll
unbolt the door and run.
Now, Jane, trip on before us away to the backstairs;
unbolt the side-passage door, and tell the driver of the post-chaise you will see in the yard--or just outside, for I told him not to drive his rattling wheels over the pavement--to be ready; we are coming: and, Jane, if any one is about, come to the foot of the stairs and hem."
The door was not even
unbolted. George anathematized Mrs.
The hermit speedily
unbolted his portal, and admitted Locksley, with his two companions.
what have you to sell?' 'Good wares, fine wares,' said she; 'laces and bobbins of all colours.' 'I will let the old lady in; she seems to be a very good sort of body,' thought Snowdrop, as she ran down and
unbolted the door.
Then he went across to his mother whilst I
unbolted the door that gave on the corridor.
There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and
unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools.
He's sure to fetch the Professor, and we couldn't take him in, you know!" And in another minute the disguises were stowed away in the cupboard, the door
unbolted, and the two Conspirators seated lovingly side-by-side on the sofa, earnestly discussing a book the Vice-Warden had hastily snatched off the table, which proved to be the City-Directory of the capital of Outland.
He
unbolted the door, called in the bearers, wished us good morning, and with a look full of meaning and a crook of his finger at parting went his way.
At four o'clock, on such a roseate summer's morning as even made Great Gaunt Street look cheerful, the faithful Tinker, having wakened her bedfellow, and bid her prepare for departure, unbarred and
unbolted the great hall door (the clanging and clapping whereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, summoned a coach from a stand there.
unbolt - undo the bolt of; "unbolt the door"