Noun : The remote mountain village was a safe bolt-hole for refugees during the war. From Dictionary.com.
"Are you going to reveal your secret bolt-hole to me?". From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
In your bolt-hole a world away, a drive away, from here. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
The bolt-hole in the floor just led down and down to water. From Wordnik.com. [The Tower of Fear]
Something landed at the bottom of the third bolt-hole, plop!. From Wordnik.com. [The Tower of Fear]
It was kept there as a bolt-hole in case the rough-stuff started. From Wordnik.com. [THE GREAT ESCAPE]
Splendid bolt-hole, too, for clandestine plotters like the Holnup. From Wordnik.com. [Watershed] Reference
He is trying to negotiate a secret bolt-hole for when the balloon goes up. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon off gathering authographs.] Reference
Somewhere in these hills she'd hoped for a bolt-hole, and she'd found it here. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
Here's a possibility - storm the city, as we intend, but leave her a bolt-hole. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
Here's a possibility — storm the city, as we intend, but leave her a bolt-hole. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
In addition, a bolt-hole would lack a cook, and one could not expect to receive mail. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
Will you show me whereabouts on the cliff-top the bolt-hole from this cave comes out?. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
Know where you are at all times and where the nearest bolt-hole is in relation to you. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE: Majority Leader Boehner’s Confidential Strategy Memo For Thursday’s Iraq Debate] Reference
He may need the bolt-hole when his grubby little party finally ditches him for a newer model. From Wordnik.com. [GET CAMERON!] Reference
Everything was there, as it had been when one of his duties had been to maintain the bolt-hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Tower of Fear]
The overall plan was simple'meet the contact, hand over the money, trail him back to his bolt-hole. From Wordnik.com. [Hot For Him]
As if each need look forward to some time of special danger when such a bolt-hole would be in need. From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Gryphon]
Hampton watched all these goings on from his bolt-hole in the family garden 10 feet above the road. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hampton: My Egyptian paradise] Reference
Certainly by the time we left the bolt-hole, we were friends again, which counted for a great deal. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
I'd had to find a bolt-hole and go to ground and this was the only place but I couldn't tell her that. From Wordnik.com. [The Striker Portfolio]
He thought she'd told him about it once, this little bolt-hole she had squirreled away somewhere in Godlost, West Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
Flashy was being sent into the deep field - clean-shaven, too, and never a bolt-hole or friend-in-need to bless himself with. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
An April headline in the tabloid Evening Standard declared: "Blair's real legacy is a tax bolt-hole for the world's fat cats.". From Wordnik.com. [London's Ascends on Globalization of Wealth] Reference
She obviously intended to reverse the situation on her attackers, by going to ground in what should have been their bolt-hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
Resourceful lass, too, finding me a bolt-hole - and loyal,. the way she'd answered back those ruffians who'd been threatening her. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
This was clearly Captain Bisyarina's bolt-hole, never intended to be more than a place where the officer could hide out if forced to run. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
So could we make do with the bolt-hole we already have?. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Its bolt-hole is sometimes three feet deep, generally on an incline. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
THIS luxurious three-bedroom home is the ideal bolt-hole for couples. From Wordnik.com. [icNewcastle] Reference
The fact that the bolt-hole in the catch is empty also tells the same story. From Wordnik.com. [Shelters, Shacks and Shanties] Reference
As a supposed boyhood Magpies fan it might be a neat bolt-hole for Berbatov. From Wordnik.com. [Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed] Reference
The small boys, after the manner of their kind, quickly vanished through a bolt-hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference
You were a miserable stay-at-home, hiding in your little bolt-hole in Whitehall when the. From Wordnik.com. [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference
Indeed, by buying a weekday bolt-hole, commuters can save a fortune on travel costs and time. From Wordnik.com. [This is Money | Home]
When she comes out again it is as a rabbit comes from a bolt-hole when a ferret is just behind. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
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