boltin

Updated: June 9, 2025

You ought to go right up to the house an' see her now. She's awfully cut up about it." "All right," says Dave, brightenin' up. "It was a dirty, mean trick anyway to play on a cove; but I'll go up an' see her." An' he went there 'n' then. An' about fifteen minutes arterwards he comes boltin' back from the house one way an' his horse the other.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush

So I haven't made matters any worse by boltin'. But we are honor bound to go back and have them out or see it through with them. So you can make up your soul, young fellah my lad, for it will be one way or the other before evenin'." I have tried to imitate here Lord Roxton's jerky talk, his short, strong sentences, the half-humorous, half-reckless tone that ran through it all.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World