It was the difference between a landsman in a sinking ship and a horseman on a bolting horse: either may be killed, but the horseman is an agent as well as a patient.

His strength was enormous: it was like holding the mane of a bolting horse.

Fritz was beaten for being thrown off a bolting horse and wearing gloves in cold weather.

As is evident, Gaius Marius is not here to give his personal opinion, and time is galloping away as fast as a bolting horse.

He felt like somebody trying to ride a bolting horse, with one foot in a stirrup and the other one still bounding along hopefully on the ground behind.

Verbiest died in Beijing shortly after receiving a wound from falling off a bolting horse.

The fighting men ready in the waist of the ship swayed and cursed as the ship heeled and jinked like a bolting horse.

The bolting horse turned left into the street but now there was no guiding hand to control the wagon.

However, in reality, a bolting horse usually does not take the bit in its teeth, as the bit rests on the gums in an interdental space where there are no teeth.