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Example Sentences

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“Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes,” I murmured, as I undrew the bolt and passed out.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

With a hand trembling through eagerness, he undrew the bolts, and was rushing forward, when he perceived that a lock withheld his passage.

From A Sicilian Romance by Radcliffe, Ann Ward

“Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes,” I murmured, as I undrew the bolt and passed out. 

From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.

An old man, in drawers and night-shirt, hastily undrew the bolts, and stood on the threshold, peering shiveringly into the darkness.

From The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by Townsend, George Alfred

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew, "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through.

From Voices for the Speechless by Firth, Abraham