Then our fellows get nightmares, and are Bolstered for calling out and waking other fellows.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
If she could only do away with that ridiculous superstition about Walter, which he probably half believed, like herself, and half Bolstered up for the sake of propriety.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
The coaches and curricles, wigs and hoops, Bolstered saddles and carriers' waggons are gone with the beaux and fine ladies and gentlemen's gentlemen whose environment they were; and the Castle Inn is no longer an inn.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman