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  • This was called the Bolting Act. Flour cannot be made unless it is "bolted" -- or has the bran taken from it -- and so the act came by its name.

    The Story of Manhattan Charles Hemstreet

  • Jenn Flick's "Bolting," a sculpted and hand-stitched color lithograph, imagining an onion growing out of a banana peel, won the nod for Most Creative Use of Paper at this year's "Works on Paper" exhibition at Rosewood Gallery.

    daytondailynews.com - News Pamela Dillon 2010

  • The blog post was a classic opening move in a "Bolting".

    newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

  • Bolting upright, she thrusts her chin over the rim.

    Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red: What's a Toilet Bowl Doing in This Love Story? Claudia Ricci 2011

  • Bolting upright, she thrusts her chin over the rim.

    Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red: What's a Toilet Bowl Doing in This Love Story? Claudia Ricci 2011

  • Bolting on Sly Stone's horns, and – words you thought you'd never read – a genuinely thrilling harmonica solo from Hollies sessioneer Tommy Morgan, this sweetly defiant tale of striding out and ignoring the haters survives all Holmes can throw at it.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • Bolting for the hall, for Beth, with that thought ricocheting through his brain, he wondered if it was his fate to always lose the people he loved.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Bolting for the hall, for Beth, with that thought ricocheting through his brain, he wondered if it was his fate to always lose the people he loved.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Bolting from the dugout, meanwhile, was Orlando Cepeda, who was also carrying a bat, as he had in Pittsburgh in 1958.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • Bolting to the other side of the tiny cabin, she slid to the floor and placed her back against the wall.

    The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010

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