One running away receives small support

Usage examples of bolster.

This was an important message for the community of potential advertisers because it bolstered the issue of credibility.

But the idea of simple scribal manipulation, which would mean that such desires never even existed, and which is advanced by modern authorities and bolstered by the similar examples from other cultures and by the predilection of scribes for amusing themselves with word and alphabet games, seems the best explanation.

Oncus sat cross-legged on the main deck under the awning, between Yama and Captain Lorquital, who lay on her side, propped by bolsters and puffing calmly on her pipe.

Air Force fatigues, with a Czech-made ZKR target pistol bolstered on her left side for the cross draw she favored.

Doc did the same with his weapon, the LeMat bolstered at his hip, the Webley jutting from his belt.

Colt Python bolstered on his hip, and several of his beloved throwing knives concealed about him.

Ryan bolstered his blaster, seeing that the double sec doors into the section were firmly closed.

I confess that I would feel more comfortable with my Le Mat bolstered once more on my hip.

All of the seven friends had bolstered their guns while they stopped to examine the samurai arrow.

He sprinted for it, bolstering the blaster as he moved, shouldering through the door, splintering it off its hinges and crashing inside.

He shot out a window in a jewelry store, adding another siren to the tumult of sounds on the street and bolstering the chaos.

It was quite normal that, if a city had suffered a particularly heavy raid, several railway batteries would be sent there immediately, partly to strengthen the defences against any follow-up raids, but mainly to bolster the morale of the bombed civilians.

Mister Bredford manages the part of young Randal with enough brio and costume changes to bolster a sagging career, plunging into the early battle scenes with commendable bloodthirsty zeal, and handling himself convincingly enough in those steamily explicit sexual encounters where all eyes are, in any event, on the voluptuous attributes of the tempestuous daughter of the neighboring plantation, played with an abandon obscuring any notions of her own acting ability by the stunning Nordic-Eurasian discovery Anga Frika in her first American starring role, had enough?

Roger said determinedly, but his tone did little to bolster the confidence of his companions.

He had then had three dozen sets of running gear reduced to component parts, had had a pair of master wagonmakers scrutinize and test every wheel-rim spoke, axletree, singletree, doubletree, bolster, pole, and hub.