bolt-holes

Paris was no keener on maintaining bolt-holes out of secret funds than London, and the pair of us transferred to the Golden Ship, myself to complete my convalescence and Delzons to enjoy a holiday - or so he said, but I suspect he was keeping an eye on me to see that I didn't get into mischief.

Watershed 2010

From Mobutu to "Baby Doc," here's a look at some of the bolt-holes favored by dictators past.

Archive 2008-04-01 The Nag 2008

The audience, mostly elderly naturalists, sat on pew-like benches pushed close together, pleased to have the speaker toss them the sort of biological bonbons Darwin himself liked to collect: the mice on St. Kilda, for instance, are twice the size of those on the Scottish mainland, possibly because there are no weasels to send them fleeing down narrow bolt-holes.

Heart of Darwin 2008

The audience, mostly elderly naturalists, sat on pew-like benches pushed close together, pleased to have the speaker toss them the sort of biological bonbons Darwin himself liked to collect: the mice on St. Kilda, for instance, are twice the size of those on the Scottish mainland, possibly because there are no weasels to send them fleeing down narrow bolt-holes.

Heart of Darwin 2008

I hollow out one of the old bolt-holes in the top to accommodate a smooth, round flattened pebble from the Hebrides, like a tiny curling stone.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

I hollow out one of the old bolt-holes in the top to accommodate a smooth, round flattened pebble from the Hebrides, like a tiny curling stone.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

With the financial system teetering and the government bankrupt, no wonder there are suddenly a surfeit of "masters of the universe", and business consultant types looking for bolt-holes with Brown.

John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008

Bin Laden and his surviving Al Qaeda commanders will, Bush aides predict, seek refuge in other Muslim states that are failing or on the brink of failure: they point to Somalia, Yemen, Sudan as the likeliest bolt-holes, with the more robust nations of Indonesia and the Philippines as possible fallbacks.

After Afghanistan, What Next? 2007

Arrowheads turn up in backyard gardens, cellars hide Underground Railroad bolt-holes and, sometimes, tombstones lie undiscovered in a corner of the back yard.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

She hadn't tapped for trapdoors or false walls — the noise might have awakened someone — but experience told her that it wouldn't be a proper lair if it didn't have at least a secret basement and some bolt-holes.

Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006