Of course, when you're riding a bike like the Electra Amsterdam, you don't need specially-engineered pants since the drivetrain is totally enclosed and you're sitting bolt-upright on a wide vinyl seat. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)
The triple-bladed bit takes his oldest daughter high in the throat, and she stands bolt-upright, with two inches of steel poking out in front of her and four more jutting out behind, just below the base of her skull. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (2008)
According to Yang Sungchul, the South Korean ambassador to Washington who was there that night, Albright and Marshal Cho conversed in one corner, she looking comfortable and the general bolt-upright as if standing at attention. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Every cushion or chair I shall sit upon, the bed I shall lie down upon (if I go to bed) till he return, will be stuffed with bolt-upright awls, bodkins, corking-pins, and packing needles: already I can fancy that, to pink my body like my mind, I need only to be put into a hogshead stuck full of steel-pointed spikes, and rolled down a hill three times as high as the Monument. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She said the words slowly, standing bolt-upright, at her greatest height, as she spoke them, and looking her aunt full in the face with something of defiance both in her eyes and in the tone of her voice. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Though unable to walk, she had arrived borne aloft in an armchair (her mode of conveyance for the last five years), as brisk, aggressive, self-satisfied, bolt-upright, loudly imperious, and generally abusive as ever. ❋ Unknown (2003)
McCoy watched her, and saw irritation in every line of her body as she sat bolt-upright in her command chair, refusing to make use of its comfortably padded back. ❋ Diane Duane With Peter Morwood (2000)
He was half-hiding behind the other, a lean, tawny-haired boy who stood bolt-upright, taking the full blast of the wagon master's thunder. ❋ Grubb, Jeff (1998)
Tawnos took a breath, then sat bolt-upright, gasping for air. ❋ Grubb, Jeff (1998)
A woman was sitting bolt-upright in the bed, half wrapped in a white froth of silken sheets. ❋ Hocking, John (1995)
The next morning she awakened and sat bolt-upright, filled with conviction. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)
After them came the Aspleys, Leoric as Cadfael had imagined and seen him, bolt-upright body and soul, appearing tall as a church column in the saddle; an irate, intolerant, honourable man, exact to his responsibilities, absolute on his privileges. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
He sat bolt-upright, and stared in blank terror at the blackness all around him. ❋ Westlake, Donald E. (1982)
He sat bolt-upright in his chair, staring at me like a man who had suddenly become insane. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"What mean you, Ignacio?" said the Padre, sitting bolt-upright in his litter. ❋ Various (N/A)
