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The old man put the yellow can in his pocket, and he rubbed his bristly white whiskers with his knuckles. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
They sat down among some bristly green soap plants. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z
The hair short and bristly from the morning haircut, the head this moment vulnerable, helpless, and loathed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The filthy witch sat inside, her back against the tree stump, chewing on a knot in a bristly rope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
The upholstery of the iron seats was bristly, and Billy couldn’t sleep much. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tom’s bristly red hair was slicked down, and his fingernails were neat, white crescents. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Its fur was a mix of light and dark brown, thick and bristly, and it had a bushy tail. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
Shorter than the natives, oddly dressed, and often unbearably dirty, the pallid foreigners had peculiar blue eyes that peeped out of the masks of bristly, animal-like hair that encased their faces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Stannis had never been enamored of his wife, but he was bristly as a hedgehog where his honor was concerned and mistrustful by nature. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Between here and there lay only swirling sand, wind-scoured rocks, and plants bristly with sharp thorns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
The caterpillars are everywhere in the woods, striped and bristly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Fenoglio plucked a hair from one nostril, looked at it as if he couldn’t believe anything quite so bristly grew in his nose, and flicked it away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Often they ducked behind bristly soap plants for cover. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z
“How do you like your adventure now, you arrogant little twit?” a lechuza with Inés’s voice asked Juanita as she caressed her face with the bristly feathers of her left wing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
With his big gut and barrel chest, his flat nose and bristly black jaw, Noye did not make a pretty sight, but he was a welcome one nonetheless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Ginger Jack’s face was hidden behind a bristly orange beard, and his speech was unintelligible. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
A bristly rope tied to a bolt in the floor is all that’s required. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z
They had grown in white as snow and bristly as a thombush while he was recovering from his wounds; he looked almost himself again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
The tendril was polished on the underside; pigs, passing through the loop, brushed it with their bristly hide. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z
“I don’t really feel like rending someone apart,” mourned Do, even as his fur turned more bristly and his fangs elongated. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
But this was not one of those nailbrush moustaches, all short and clipped and bristly. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Manager, whose name was Mr Stringer, was a bristly man in a black tail-coat. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
He was a very small old man, but he had a huge bald head and a face that was covered all over with bristly black whiskers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z
The nails grew long on his thin fingers and a dry, bristly beard appeared on his chin. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
You couldn't tell whether the person in the picture was a man or a woman, because their hair was shaved off and sprouted in bristly chicken-feather tufts all over their head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
I feel more of his bristly mustache than anything. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
Burnside gets a little bristly, but says, “I’ll have a talk with the board. It shouldn’t be a problem.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
“He’s hustling you,” said Mad Sweeney, rubbing his bristly ginger beard. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
His skin was pale as parchment, his hair cut short and bristly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
His eyes blinded with tears and he turned and went weakly out of the barn, and he rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
The bathroom is festooned with stockings and underpants; hair rollers perch on the kitchen counter like bristly caterpillars, dishes cake in the sink. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Holding the pig by the ankle, I could still feel her warmth beneath the bristly skin. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
Six beady black eyes, bristly legs, and massive jaws that ended in curved, pointed fangs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
All I could see was the bristly tip of its back. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z
Beside the stump, dressed in crude rags, sat a wiry old woman gnawing at a knot in a bristly rope. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
He headed to a clearing he knew of, a place that lay just beyond a thick stand of bristly pines. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z
It was a round, bristly creature no taller than his knees. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
A long, flat, bristly part is attached to her rear. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
I liked to feel his new bristly crew cut. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z
Beneath the dusty, bristly skin I felt her warmth, but no heartbeat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
It was a boy somewhat older than himself, with bristly red hair and freckles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Looking over at him, I notice his flushed cheeks and rabbity eyes, his droopy brown mustache and bristly eyebrows, the stomach that protrudes from the bottom of his vest like a barely hidden balloon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
The words in the caption look insect bristly. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
The pig grunts expressively, and I scratch the bristly head. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
She flapped her wings in my face, slapping my head with her sharp, bristly feathers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
I smiled back, feeling the rough and bristly rope. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
Then I notice bristly hairs on my fingers that weren’t there before. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
It was short and bristly now, and at least that made Silvertongue look slightly different. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
Their bristly fur was plum-colored, and their tails looked like burnt flapjacks covered in quills. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
It was a random, bristly beard, and some of the bristles were white, even though Billy was only twenty-one years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
But she knew he would not leave and that when she stretched out on the bristly carpet he would lie next to her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
She reached out to run her hand over the bristly top of his head. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z
“My mother’s fur is bristly,” I say to myself. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had bristly red hair, a soft, doughy face, and deep circles under his eyes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
She is close enough that I can see the small pink veins, like seams on the back of a delicate leaf, spreading across her cheeks, the downy fur on her jawbone, her bristly black eyebrows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
Gallery visitors leaned in, taking cellphone photographs of specific details, like one Arhat’s bent, colored toenails or another’s bristly nose hairs. | Takashi Murakami 2013-04-18T14:59:43Z
At an airy ninth-floor restaurant in the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, he sipped a cappuccino as he looked out toward the bristly gray winter canopy of Central Park. Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z
It’s an old-fashioned film, said its writer-director, a physically imposing figure who has white hair and a bristly beard. He Gave David Lynch His Start. Now, at 82, He’s a New Director. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z
Gussman puts on a gruff and sometimes surly front — accentuated by his bristly white beard and unruly eyebrows — but also seems eager to flash a wry sense of humor. Celebrated butcher carves out niche in L.A.'s culinary scene 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z
They're bristly and coarse; it's a bit like being in a tumble drier with a bunch of giant piebald Brillo pads. Miss Marple 2010-08-31T06:00:00Z
You might hear a trace of the slipstream cadence he explored in the Miles Davis Quintet and probably a touch of his bristly rapport with Lee Morgan. Music Review: Sound Prints at the Village Vanguard 2012-11-30T23:43:30Z
They stare out the windows at one another, like animals curious about bristly new creatures that have gathered around the watering hole. ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z
There is, however, a quintet of storytelling grannies, two of whom seem too bristly to be wearing petticoats. Sleeping Beauty – review 2013-01-07T18:27:00Z
The same few passages, in the very first pages, remind me of this — they’re markings on an entryway — sudden bursts of bristly adjective clusters. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z
Minnie is unfazed by Ruth's bristly sense of humor, and the pair share confidences while Ruth reminisces about a childhood stay in town with her family. Review: Lucas' 'The Lying Lesson' a gentle comedy 2013-03-14T00:33:12Z
Our reviewer, Cree LeFavour, calls it an “intense, intelligent and bristly” book, both “angry and alive,” that’s distinguished by the narrator’s “breakneck pace, frightening honesty and biting, self-deprecating humor.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z
He carefully inspects a front hoof and runs his hand over the animal’s bristly haunches, then dutifully scribbles on a clipboard. Officials everywhere are now perpetuating the Santa conspiracy to your kids 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z
Mostly technical things: Ford, bristly veteran of the first three films, and Isaac, a well-respected indie actor and “Star Wars” neophyte, both play pilots, and Isaac wanted flying tips. ‘Star Wars’ fans aren’t just the filmgoers; they’re also in the cast 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z
Maybe his sometimes bristly personality or his background as a privileged outsider. Art Review: Rafael Ferrer at El Museo del Barrio 2010-06-10T21:56:00Z
IN a world where men sport permanent stubble on their faces, the capacity to grow a thick, bristly beard in just 48 hours can be considered an evolutionary advantage. Skin Deep: Stubble Trimmers Give Men the After-5 Look 2011-09-28T19:59:03Z
In addition to the partial loss of their bristly winter coats, tick infestation makes moose less able to reproduce, she said. Michigan moose have worse tick infestation after warm summers, study finds 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z
His spiky-fluffy brown hair and bristly beard are speckled with silver. Ulrich Seidl: 'Those who say I despise people do not understand me' 2013-06-13T13:00:02Z
Collectors had favorite shells cemented onto grotto walls, sometimes in the bristly shapes of pine cones and artichokes. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z
An awfully hairy arm, the arm of a really hairy guy, some guy with really unflattering, bristly black hair up and down his arm.” Books of The Times: Rick Moody?s ?Four Fingers of Death? Dips Into Absurd 2010-08-16T22:24:00Z
His bristly, buzzed dark hair is defiantly unstylish. Comedian Russell Peters is doing just fine being 'Almost Famous' 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z
The Boston Symphony has a better track record lately with new and recent music; Mr. Levine was a passionate interpreter of bristly modernism. Critic’s Notebook: Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras’ Young Leaders 2013-05-19T21:50:33Z
Wildschwein still dwell deep in the forests, and I sometimes catch sight of these furtive, tusked and bristly beasts in the thick woods in the early morning. My Berlin: Reckoning With the Past 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z
His bristly face broke into a huge smile. A Family Ski Adventure in the Himalayas 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z
Without sight, Lina relies on her "neurons and their bristly dendrites" for guidance. Lina Meruane's 'Seeing Red' is a piercing novel of blindness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z
The bristly protagonists of Fox’s “24” and “House, M.D.” broke rules to get the job done. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z
His oral biography of Mailer was bristly and blood warm, like a freshly killed wild boar. Books of The Times: A Murder Trial to Cover, Axes to Grind 2011-07-07T21:30:32Z
When I read comic books, they were more likely to be the ones about Archie and Veronica than those about the gifted caped-and-body-stockinged figures that boys with bristly imaginations were supposed to gobble up. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z
“Like a feral cat, she can seem quicksilver and weightless or, when enraged, menacing and bristly and twice her size,” Jesse Green wrote of Negga’s performance in a review in The Times. Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z
They wanted a distributor who got Mr. Leigh, as Mr. Channing-Williams put it, and would know how to sell the filmmaker’s intimate, bristly, humanist work to the American art-house audience. Bingham Ray, Light of October Films and Daring Cinema 2012-02-03T19:51:30Z
With my father’s rock pick I gouged at the dull, bristly hide of the nearest mummifying kangaroo, prizing apart bones and leathery tendons, mouth-breathing through the nausea all the while. The Season of the Skulls 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z
Maine will be playing host to its first-ever international mustache film festival, part of its annual pageant that celebrates the bristly facial hair. Mustache film festival to be held in Maine 2012-02-06T23:52:26Z
Every character who wanders though it is, to use Primo Levi’s words, “as disheveled and bristly as a cat returning from a rooftop jamboree.” A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z
“It mixes new directors and old ones — the venerable King Vidor is here this year — actors, distributors, scholars and the bristly and ardent society of film buffs,” The Times wrote in 1976. Tom Luddy, a Behind-the-Scenes Force in Cinema, Dies at 79 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z
Others are bristly when I even bring up his name. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is my do-gooder boyfriend doing right by me? 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z
It’s about the delivery, usually offered by someone leaning in to the conversation, some combination of excitement and bristly attitude. How Does a New Yawker Tawk? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z
“The wasp has to be really hungry to want to tackle a bristly caterpillar,” Weller said. Woolly bear caterpillars use clever tricks to survive 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z
The observed species are classified as baleen whales, which have a large bristly whalebone at the front of their mouth to filter feed, instead of teeth. Why are whales throwing seaweed on their heads? 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z
Lit by a headlamp, the hamster-size bat has a tuft of bristly hair under its nose and tiny eyes tucked close to its ears. This Mexican biologist is fighting to preserve his country’s biodiversity—and his own legacy 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z
This trap contained two fully grown, rotund adults, two balls of bristly fur that had merged into what one member of the trapping team called a single “big squish.” In the Big City, Wildlife Researchers Are on the Prowl 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z
What has tusks, bristly hair, and is contaminated with dangerous levels of radiation? Germany’s radioactive boars are a bristly reminder of nuclear fallout 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z
When the creatures are cold, the spines lie flat along their back like a bristly combover, preventing heat from escaping. Echidnas blow snot bubbles to cool down 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z
Lizzie and Robbie, a bonded pig pair with bristly coats and a fondness for mouthing visitors’ shoelaces, were absolute champs, happily slobbering all over the big cotton swabs proffered by the scientists. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Barn? To Sign Up for the Scientific Study. 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z
In addition to the partial loss of their bristly winter coats, tick infestation makes moose anemic and less able to reproduce, she said. Study reveals how warmer summers worsen tick infestation for moose 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z
Nobody in this crazy mix works if the bristly Westbrook doesn’t work. Column: Will Russell Westbrook's attitude be conducive to a championship or collapse? No idea 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z
Hedgehogs are small mammals, known for their coats, which are covered with bristly spines. SUV crashes into house in Montgomery; hedgehog involved, unharmed 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z
With his short, spiky hair and tightly trimmed beard, Father Bower, 58, has something of the wombat about him — another bristly, if often lovable Australian of the wild. Australia’s ‘Rebel Reverend’ Goes Viral With Barbed Liberal Messages 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z
Nothing about the way he was dressed would have made me look twice, but he wasn’t wearing a mask, so I had a clear view of his pug nose and bristly blond beard. Please, I’m a cancer survivor: Mask up! 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z
An inveterate skeptic and bristly contrarian in his profession, Mr. Randi insisted that magic is based solely on earthly sleight of hand and visual trickery. James Randi, magician and escape artist devoted to debunking the paranormal, dies at 92 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z
He subsisted on meager rations of rice and pork fat — often with the pig’s skin and bristly hair — and weeds. Sam Johnson, Vietnam POW who became a Texas congressman, dies at 89 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z
Bob is about 60 years old, and he has a bristly mustache that has gone mostly gray. The Greenkeeper’s Tale - Golf Digest 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z
It’s one of the year’s most bewitching albums, the bristly indie rock for which she’s best known enhanced by country and folk, and the clarifying effect of new sobriety. Waxahatchee: 'Getting sober, you’re facing this stuff shoved deep down' 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z
He has been described through the years as bristly and soulful. How should we view Bob Shaye — mogul, director, 'moral horizon' watcher — in a #MeToo world? 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z
Mirthfully, he also played up his Navy roots, growing a bristly mustache and wearing a patch emblazoned with “Free Trade and Sailors Rights,” a slogan used to explain the War of 1812. ‘Goodbye, Old Man’: How a McCain came home from war to mourn his famous father 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z
Now sixty-eight, Franken is short and sturdily built, with bristly gray hair, tortoiseshell glasses, and a wide, froglike mouth from which he tends to talk out of one corner. The Case of Al Franken 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z
The driver saw an opening and lurched forward just as a tall man with a bristly mustache and a three-piece suit walked in front of him. ‘The Prospect of Getting Up and Leaving Seemed Inconvenient’ 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z
The scientists, with the New England Aquarium in Boston, said the method involves measuring stress hormones by studying baleen, the bristly filter-feeding system in the mouths of the biggest whales on the planet. Link to stress, health of whales might be in giant mouths 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z
With its bulbous shape and bristly top knot, it didn't look like any of its neighbors. Closing in on a century-old mystery, scientists are figuring out what the body’s ‘tuft cells’ do 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z
If it were up to Chesser - alive, looming and bristly as ever on the screen - this would not be up for debate. Riding the wave: Surfers grow up in touching documentary 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z
If it were up to Chesser — alive, looming and bristly as ever on the screen — this would not be up for debate. Riding the wave: Surfers grow up in touching documentary 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z
He was walking on Assateague’s north end, a patch of bristly pine trunks denuded by a recent pine beetle infestation. On an island famous for wild ponies, a dangerous infection is killing horses 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z
At 71, he has snowy white hair and a bristly mustache, and behind chunky black glasses, his eyelids droop slightly, like drawn curtains. The Met Reinvents Itself, Yet the Ushers Remain the Same 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z
Other seeds and some insects use a similar kind of bristly flight. Drifting Dandelion Seeds Produce a Vortex Never Before Seen 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z
Recently, while vacationing in Manhattan, Skaife, who is Beefeater-shaped, with a bristly beard, was incognito, dressed in a zippered jacket and cargo shorts. Bird-Watching with the Ravenmaster 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z
Researchers were curious about how these bristly seeds stayed in the air because they looked so different from the wing-like seeds of other plants, such as maples. Dandelion seeds fly using ‘impossible’ method never before seen in nature 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z
Now sixty, he is trim, with a boxy build and an abundant thatch of graying hair, which sweeps across his forehead in uneven, bristly bangs. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z
Second place went to a video showing a laser propagating through a soap membrane, and a tiny, bristly marine worm claimed third. Tiny worlds, starry nights and views from an asteroid — September’s best science images 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z
And in water, black fly larvae may use bristly fans to suspend themselves and filter food particles out of the water. Drifting Dandelion Seeds Produce a Vortex Never Before Seen 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z
He had short, bristly gray hair and a short gray beard. The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z
A single, surprisingly bristly hair, on my chin. “A woman who is feeling something is a bitch”: Our love-hate affair with women’s bodies 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z
Paintings depict steepled pinnacles crowding into bristly masses, forests stippling mountainsides, and crystalline peaks soaring like stalagmites. Climbing to New Peaks of Creativity 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z
From your bristly mustache in “Fargo” to your tidy whiskers in “Boardwalk Empire,” facial hair transforms you. Michael Stuhlbarg's 'fragile balancing act' in playing a supportive dad in 'Call Me by Your Name' 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z
The group tested their ideas with simplified artificial models, etched silicon discs that were porous like the bristly pappus. Drifting Dandelion Seeds Produce a Vortex Never Before Seen 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z
Near the city’s edge, Isaac’s van stopped at a state-supported cooperative that manufactures coir, a bristly fabric used to make welcome mats sold in hardware stores across the United States. One of the few places where a communist can still dream   2017-10-26T04:00:00Z
Even the very beautiful giant leopard moth’s bristly caterpillar feeds on this plant, probably sequestering the plant’s toxins for its own protection. The Vegetarian’s Puffer Fish 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z
Connie is bug-eyed and bristly bearded, with a slurred drawl, and a glowering expression that flickers between exhaustion and feral aggression. Robert Pattinson has put his teen heartthrob roles behind him 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z
They are filter feeders, meaning they use their five-foot-wide mouths filled with hundreds of bristly teeth to filter huge gulps of plankton from seawater. World’s largest fish, a whale shark, nudges a fishing boat near Ocean City 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z
“This type of bristly structure is everywhere in the biological world. It has been invented many times independently” for seeds and for moving organisms, she said, but it is “quite unexplored.” Drifting Dandelion Seeds Produce a Vortex Never Before Seen 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z
He had straight sandy-coloured hair, a full bristly blonde beard with a small moustache that was "barely noticeable", wore square gold-rimmed glasses, black trousers, black shoes and a dark jacket, police said. E-fit re-released in hunt for 1982 Poole rapist - BBC News 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z
Another saving grace: Watson and Stevens not only manage a nice and bristly screen rapport but also strike a chord of authentic feeling. Disney's live-action 'Beauty and the Beast' tries to reawaken that timeless magic 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z
Kurlantzick gives us a compelling portrait of this soft-spoken man “with the bristly buzz cut and the thick Clark Kent glasses who spoke fluent Lao with a Texas accent” — the quintessential quiet American. Opinion | Laos: America’s lesser known human and political disaster in Southeast Asia 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
This American icon has a whorled orange-hued exterior, and is topped off with an instantly-recognizable bristly form. The Trump administration's Twitter feud with the National Parks Service is absurd 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z
The one with the slightly shorter, golden bristly whiskers. Rialto’s growing up: Once-stranded otter finds new family in Vancouver 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z
So you nibble on the side dishes, which include that turnip kimchi, a rather wonderful plate of bristly Korean chives with chile, and an extremely pungent traditional cabbage kimchi. If you're looking for steaming hot Korean broth, Sun Nong Dan is the place to go 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z
When we finally got together, I expected her to look bristly headed and traumatized, like Dustin Hoffman in “Papillon.” The Pieces of Zadie Smith 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z
One bristly patron popped in from the cold with his visiting mother and her Irish terrier. Seattle beer geeks, rejoice! No Anchor is here for you 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z
Trump advisers believe Pence could help repackage the ticket for voters turned off by Trump: Where Trump is brash and bristly, Pence is cool and collected. ‘Let Mike be Mike’: Inside the sometimes awkward Trump-Pence partnership 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z
As he talked, Petty poked at a birthday cake, licking frosting off his finger and flashing that iconic, crooked smile beneath a bristly mustache that suspiciously showed no signs of gray. At 79, Richard Petty, a Bastion of Nascar, Sticks to What He Knows 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z
Kessel’s bristly attitude – especially with media – was a constant distraction from the good numbers he usually put up on the ice. This year's Stanley Cup playoffs had it all. If only hockey fans had watched it 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z
Ashley strung a long tape measure along the way and recorded exactly where each bristly was caught with a small dip net. Researchers catch elusive crustacean inside Missouri cave 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z
I’ve tried using Post-it notes, but they soon become a bristly, yellow jumble. When it comes to getting lost in a hardcover, the bookmark marks the spot 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z
Milo pulled back his lips and gnawed at the row of plastic stitches that rose from his bare skin like a bristly forest. The dog who came in from the cold 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z
Throughout his nearly 30-minute appearance before reporters and photographers, keepers and veterinarians stroked Bei Bei's thick, bristly fur, and he protested only when they tried to open his mouth to count his teeth. Ready for his close-up: At 4 months, National Zoo's panda cub is comfortable with crowds 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z
The senior director of automotive at Nvidia in Silicon Valley showed it to me: a bristly motherboard about the size of an iPad, known as the Drive PX, that will upend the auto industry. Could Self-Driving Cars Spell the End of Ownership? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z
In past excursions, Bright photographed bristly crayfish eating a salamander, dining on a dead bat and even devouring a pickerel frog. Researchers catch elusive crustacean inside Missouri cave 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z
Eisenberg has portrayed nervous, bristly types before, but he taps into something sympathetic and indelible in Lipsky's mix of aggressiveness, awed sincerity and professional jealousy. 'The End of the Tour' is a riveting road-trip conversation with David Foster Wallace 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z
They bear two kinds of leaves, one short and scale-like, the other pointed and bristly. Red Cedar: An Urban Pioneer 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z
Scientists now believe that a number of genetic disorders, from polycystic kidney disease to some forms of retinal degeneration, can ultimately be traced back to cilia—bristly, hairlike structures that dot cell surfaces. Why Scientists Are Blaming Cilia for Human Disease 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z
Late that afternoon, she stood in an open meadow where the weed was duking it out with mugwort, Japanese knotweed and Japanese hops, a bristly twining vine that is difficult to remove. On Patrol With the Weed Warriors 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z
Photos from the trial showed him seated and handcuffed, sporting a brown T-shirt, waggish smile and bristly hair that called to mind one of the bears that he once locked up. Beijing Zoo Official by Day, Taxi Driver by Night, Court Told 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z
But he has had a bristly relationship with team management, and concerns over his handling of assistant coaches were likely to have played a part in his dismissal. Winning Isn’t the Only Thing: Warriors Fire Mark Jackson 2014-05-06T20:07:35Z
Remember those elegant, bristly antennae and that nubbly shell from the film? Fool's Gold Preserves Tiny, Ancient Crustacean 2014-03-27T19:34:28Z
If Caleb had been his son, he’d have had a bristly haircut and would never have been allowed to stay up all night playing Monopoly. Antonya Nelson: “First Husband.” 2013-12-30T05:00:00Z
They are made of special bristly boards, which will allow the young fish to slither over obstacles on their way into the lake. Eels get help for Windermere return 2013-08-11T02:35:04Z
It was a month before his 71st birthday, and his handsome face was animated by intense, shiny brown eyes, deep-set under a bristly awning of brow. A Life-or-Death Situation 2013-07-17T11:00:53Z
My inclination is to get bristly with the person doing the pitching. Why I hate 'Content Marketing' and 'Blogger Outreach' 2012-12-07T17:38:22Z
Captain Tom is 63, a spindly, aging Popeye of a man with a bristly white beard, white captain’s hat and jagged grin. What’s a Monkey to Do in Tampa? 2012-08-23T10:04:05Z
Bow-shaped whale skulls are displayed in front of public buildings, and baleens — the bristly plates that filter krill in the whale’s mouth — as trophies in offices and homes. The Energy Rush: Shell Arctic Ocean Drilling Stands to Open New Oil Frontier 2012-05-23T23:27:17Z
Nostrils basal, sulcated; the aperture terminal, round, small, hid by bristly incumbent feathers. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z
Spikelets ovate, not involucrate nor the pedicels bristly. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
The hair was much coarser and more bristly than that of the medium, and the beard seemed very soft and delicate. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z
The eyes, placed in the middle of a patch of bare skin, are furnished with bristly lashes, resembling those of horn-bills and some few other birds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z
The drawing-room is full of shawls, With footstools everywhere, And prickly cushions stuck upright Upon each bristly chair. Kensington Rhymes 2012-03-15T02:00:28.607Z
We have examples of bristly hair being shed in a whole family every autumn. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
I. Fruit with the secondary ribs the most prominent, winged and armed with barbed or hooked prickles, the primary ribs filiform and bristly. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
He had a few bristly hairs upon his chin and upper lip, and dark, heavy eyebrows overshadowed his well set, evil-looking eyes. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z
The Supreme Intelligence tugged at his bristly moustache. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z
He is now about a half-inch in length, a long pointed oval in outline, the sides of its body beset with bristly warts, and its head armed with two long incurved teeth. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z
Hispid, beset with rigid or bristly hairs, or with bristles. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
Pods bristly, ascending on spreading pedicels, more than half its length occupied by the sword-shaped 1-seeded beak; leaves all pinnatifid; seeds pale. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
Leaves rough, often serrate; the lowest ovate, five nerved, veiny, long petioled; the other ovate-lanceolate; involucre imbricated in three to five rows; stem smooth, or in one form rough, bristly, as well as the leaves. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z
This was a man of middle age, with reddish hair, a red, square, inflamed face and a bristly moustache. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z
Nixon stooped over the tall bristly flower-heads, rusty green in color, and gathered a few of the two-pronged seed-vessels that cling so readily to the fur of an animal or the clothing of a boy. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z
Sepals.—Three; strongly arched, covered with bristly appressed hairs; caducous. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
Seeds coiled like a snail shell, without albumen.—Low perennial herbs, often bristly, with mostly sessile 3–5-nerved and bristly-edged leaves, and large showy cymose flowers; in summer; the petals falling early. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
The colour, when not whitewashed, is a pale buff; it is somewhat rough or fibrous, breaking with a short mealy fracture, and presenting on the surfaces of the broken parts numerous short bristly fibres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z
Bill short, straight, conical, sharp-pointed, destitute of a notch; nostrils basal, concealed by reflected bristly hairs. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
He resorted to his favourite trick--he stroked his bristly chin, as if the action assisted him in the search for an appropriate answer. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z
The structure of the anthers is quite interesting, each cell consisting of a little bag with bristly margins, the two together being heart-shaped in outline. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
Fruit bristly or tuberculate, with rather prominent equal ribs. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
The steward said no more, but went aside and brought forth a druidical magic wand, and, striking his son with it, he turned him into a great bristly wild boar, having neither ears nor tail. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z
Black, with green and violet reflections; tail slightly rounded, extending an inch and a quarter beyond the closed wings; iris dark hazel; lower part of the beak covered with bristly feathers; beak and feet black. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
He put up his long, thin hand to stroke his bristly chin. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z
The strong stems are tall and slender, and bear at summit the large bristly cones, surrounded by rigid, erect bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
Pod bristly; style distinct; stigmas and placentas 3–4. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
Bill sharply pointed; a tuft of bristly feathers over the nostril; tail slightly forked. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z
Nostrils basal, oval, covered by bristly feathers directed forward. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
"Did yez iver?" said Patrick, smiling with good humor, from the crown of his bristly head to the extremity of his bristly chin. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z
Its leathery, dark green leaves are divided by curving sinuses into squarish lobes, each ending in one or more bristly tips. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z
Leaves decurrent on the stem, forming prickly lobed wings, pinnatifid, rough and bristly above, woolly with deciduous webby hairs beneath, prickly; flowers purple. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
Bill swollen and rounded; nostrils large, partially covered by projecting, grayish, bristly feathers; tail slightly forked. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z
Nostrils basal, oval, pointed in front and partly covered by reflected bristly feathers. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Down below in the parquet one could see the dean's thick bristly hair. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z
The pin oak earns its name by the sharp, short, spur-like twigs that cluster on the branches, crowding each other to death and then persisting to give the tree a bristly appearance. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z
Branchlets bristly, as well as the margins and midrib of the oblong-obovate otherwise smooth leaves; calyx-lobes minute; corolla clammy, the tube much longer than the lobes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
Climbing birds with stout, pointed bills, bristly nostrils, pointed, stiffened tail feathers, strong feet and nails; two toes in front and two behind, except in Picoides, which has two in front and one behind. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z
Bill stout, convex or slightly angular above, straight at the base, much hooked at the tip, commissure simply festooned; cere bristly; nostrils rounded or oval; wings long. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
“Can you speak Welsh?” said a darkish man with black bristly hair and a small inquisitive eye. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z
It happens that annuals have leaves with rounded lobes, while biennials have leaves with lobes that end in angles and bristly tips. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z
Corolla bright crimson or rose-red; habit of n. 1, but upper lip of corolla villous-bearded on the back at tip; throat of calyx with the outer bristly hairs widely spreading. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
Its limbs are often crooked and angular and bear a head made of slender, pendant branches or short, bristly, stubby twigs. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z
Bill corvine in shape; culmen rounded; nostrils near base of upper mandible and hidden by bristly feathers; tail feathers twelve. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
His beard had grown rough and bristly, as had his heavy eyebrows. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z
The red oak leaf is large, smooth, rather thin, its oval broken by triangular sinuses and forward-aiming lobes, that end in bristly points. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z
Corolla funnel-shaped, with curved tube and slightly unequal limb; the throat closed with 5 convex obtuse bristly scales opposite the lobes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
It has large, pear-shaped bulbs, and rosettes of leaves 6 to 12 inches long, with bristly margins. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z
What if Renshawe’s hair was red and his mustache a trifle bristly? Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z
His mantle is lined with orient pearls and embroidered with gold; the thick bristly hair is held together by a golden helmet, the crest of which sparkles with diamonds and topazes. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z
His thin lips curled, and his bristly mane rose belligerently. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z
Pappus double and bristly, or very short or none. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
"According to command of the colonel," answered the old man, sitting on the edge of a bench and stretching out his iron-gray bristly head uneasily toward Kmita. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z
The Field-cricket, however, might with reason entertain apprehensions, for he was as sleek and plump as I was lean and bristly. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z
He was tall and lank, and had the most hideously bristly red beard I ever saw. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z
In that posture his long, coarse hair rose bristly above his neck, giving him something of the appearance of a gamecock with feathers ruffled. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z
More slender, smooth and glabrous throughout, or with few bristly hairs; leaves taper-pointed, more sharply toothed, mostly rounded or truncate at the base, all more conspicuously petioled. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
When full grown the caterpillars are a little more than an inch long with a general color of velvety black, marked with fine yellow lines and more or less covered with bristly spines. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z
They were led by a grand boar, and the whole lot looked like a troop of charging lions as they raced by with their bristly manes erect and their tufted tails standing straight up. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z
The dugong, having the muzzle bristly, is named by the latter the "baardmanetje," or "little bearded man." Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z
The jaws and chin were covered with a bristly growth, as if shaving had been neglected for a fortnight. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z
Stems mostly bearing thorns at the base of the leafstalks or clusters of leaves, and often with scattered bristly prickles; berries prickly or smooth. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
The first, a squat man of fifty-five, with a broad, coarse, beardless face, bad teeth and bristly gray hair just suffering under its first infliction of slaty-brown hair-dye. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z
His accent sounded half-Norwegian; the combed-down hair slipped aside for an instant from his brow, and over his wild fiery eye a pair of bristly meeting eye-brows and a large red scar were visible. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z
On the shoulders something like a bristly mane commenced which extended to near the extremity of the tail. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z
Running one stubby hand through his bristly grey hair, he extended the other to Claverton. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z
Perennial, hirsute, often 2° high; leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, broad or narrow, entire to coarsely pinnatifid; rays usually numerous and long; chaff bristly or subulate.—Dak., west and southward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
It is somewhat coarse, and when kept short with boys, is almost bristly, and stands up stiffly all over the head. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z
The face of the corpse was swollen, and already in such a state that none could recognise the outlawed knight, excepting from the bristly beard and meeting eyebrows. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z
They were a pretty brown colour, with thick, somewhat bristly coats, in form like a large guinea-pig, with short legs, and webbed feet. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z
A fringe of black whisker adorns his cheek and chin, and his black bristly hair is brushed back, so as to exhibit the prodigious expanse of his forehead. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z
Leaves mostly glabrous, pale or whitish, glaucous especially underneath, serrulate with bristly teeth.—Common in the Alleghanies southward, mostly on the higher ridges. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
And even then she had almost immediately afterwards bestowed upon Olwen an exquisite old coral brooch and a bristly kiss. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z
Big, black, hairy as Esau, a bloodshot eye, bristly beard and a frightful temper. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z
The eyes are small—very small; it has a queer-looking head, the upper and lower parts of the lips having very hard and bristly hair. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z
His feet were upon prickly rose branches, and all round the Elysian fields of his future he saw thorny bushes, bristly undergrowth, and a wall built, beginning at his grave. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z
He spoke the words in a clear, strong voice and with a slight rolling motion of his gray bristly head. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z
His bristly black person, and shagged breast quite open and rarely purified by any ablutions, was wrapped in a foul linen nightgown and his bushy hair dishevelled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z
Heribald who was near, hurried up to catch him in his arms, and as he did so, his bristly beard, grazed the chamberlain's forehead. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z
His nails were neglected, his hands as rough and calloused as a blacksmith's; he had not shaved for several days and his beard felt bristly and unclean. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z
It was on the trunk of a wild apple tree that he found the little round bristly fellow. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z
He was a large bristly animal and had a particularly nasty note in his growl. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the head, And Summer’s green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly head. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z
Mr. George was impatient—he always gets bristly when things are moving—and cut us off from our fooling when a sharp: "Come on, Molly, sit down and let's hear the whole of this." Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z
Sneezit did not trust his English to make any remarks, but he smiled broadly under his bristly mustache. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z
"Do you think so, my Fr�ulein?" said the Doctor, quickly, as he passed his hand several times through his bristly hair. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z
Billy Knapp was dark, tall, broad-shouldered, long-haired, wearing a bristly mustache and goatee. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z
Its coat is of very scant, irregular hair, somewhat bristly in appearance, and often so thin that the smooth brown skin shines through when the sunlight falls upon it. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z
"The other person died a year ago, only nobody liked to tell mother, she was so bristly and snappy." Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z
It was not the bristly beard which had wrought the change, although this disguised him startlingly. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z
These bristly fellows are a very suitable small fruit of such unkempt wildernesses. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z
The Honorable Pulaski tucked the end of a big cigar into the opening in his bristly gray beard where his mouth was hidden, and lighted it. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z
A young ostrich's rough, bristly, untidy-looking 'chicken feathers' are plucked for the first time when he is nine months old. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z
He was dressed in a ragged old shooting-jacket, and had a bristly blue beard. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z
This is no pig," he said; "and except for its bristly skin, does not look like one. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z
The old sergeant out of service ran to meet him in torn slippers, and violently wiped his green-grey bristly beard on his son's face. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z
Old Siméon had listened without speaking, with his head still half wrapped up, showing only his bristly gray beard and his eyes hidden behind their yellow spectacles. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z
The leaves are bristly like a beard, and rough to the touch. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z
But in the Beech the "cupule" becomes a bristly closed box, which afterwards opens by one end splitting into four triangular silk-hair-lined valves, which turn back and reveal the three-sided, sharp-edged "mast." Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z
Scroop-scroop, sounded the rakes, like razors being drawn over very bristly chins; and Captain Hall 73 realised that these young men had given themselves up to be scraped and scarified with the rows of teeth. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z
It wasn't the bristly hair on his temples either, nor the grating voice of command. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z
Sometimes an old serving-man, with long gray hair and a bristly beard, with a comforter round his neck and a pair of yellow spectacles on his nose, brings you or fetches you. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z
Mr Dodd was a bachelor—rather a bald bachelor, with a great deal of very smooth white crown, surrounded by a neat little stubbly fence of very black bristly hair. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z
The lance-shaped lobes of these are unequal, sharp, and angular; and the footless acorn-cups are covered with bristly or mossy-looking scales. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z
Smith stroked his bristly beard and tossed another Chargers helmet into the fire. The Fifth Down: Week 7 N.F.L. Matchups 2010-10-22T12:00:00Z
Golden marigold buttons dotted the marshy spots, and the bur-reed stretched out its bristly fruit on crinkled arms. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z
To the outside eye, though, he remains a trim middle-aged man with bristly gray hair, who wears the same kind of khakis and polo shirts for both of his occupations. Beliefs: Weekdays, the Adman Worked. Sundays, the Shaman Healed. 2010-07-23T16:48:00Z
Beard wore a paint-splattered Saints cap, his face covered with bristly whiskers. 2010-01-24T07:35:00Z
Beak convex, cultrate; nostrils covered by recumbent bristly feathers: 19 species. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History
He stood up and soothed his friend, who sank back again on the sofa-cushions, and caressed comically his bristly hair. The Undying Past
The larv� have a glossy and bristly appearance, and are generally gregarious in their habits. Butterflies and Moths (British)
Grayness was all around us; underfoot was mud, glimmering patches of soft snow, and the bristly stubble of the close-cut marsh grass. The Jonathan Papers
"Not tickly and bristly," said Tiny with firmness; and she strutted up the walk for a pace or two, and then turned round to laugh over her shoulder. The Land of Lost Toys
Beak angular, straight, the tip wedgeshaped; the nostrils covered with recumbent bristly feathers: 21 species. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History
The high, rather receding forehead was furrowed with three perpendicular lines denoting mental fatigue, and it ended in a shock of bristly dark-brown hair standing erect. The Undying Past
It is black, with whitish lines along the sides; and is provided with a number of bristly spines. Butterflies and Moths (British)
Now the foot of a bee consists of five joints, and is clothed with bristly looking hairs. Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects
The two men were pushing him, dead white, crumpled, sobbing, into the taxi; he seemed very small beside the big men with their square shoulders and bristly mustaches. Sinister Street, vol. 2
"I didn't quite catch—" he began hesitatingly, angling his bristly red head forward and smiling pleasantly. The Haunted Pajamas
In almost any summer shoot, most of the gradations may be seen between the ordinary leaves, with sharp bristly teeth, and leaves which are reduced to a branching spine or thorn. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools
In colour the caterpillar is velvety black, dotted with white, and its body is covered with short bristly spines. Butterflies and Moths (British)
His breathing is labored and loud, his face is smeared with mud and swollen from the cold, his beard and earlocks are rough and bristly, his eyes sleepy and red. Yiddish Tales
Now when Meats had been dragged away, he was anxious to disclaim the whole acquaintanceship for fear of the criticism of a big man with a bristly mustache. Sinister Street, vol. 2
His chin was more bristly than ever, and his shifty blue eyes blinked like a rat’s beady orbs as he took the bits of metal. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship
To most men's minds curly hair is a blemish which barbers' shears and bristly brushes may remove, but to women Duncan Grahame's short; crispy black curls were a seldom failing charm. With Edge Tools
His hair was ruby red, and very short; and he had a thick red beard: not silky, but bristly, with each bristle almost a dagger,—and his mouth was enormous. Ayala's Angel
This sponge is of a peculiar shape, growing more like a brush, with long bristly fiber. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water.
He had seen society in action: not all the devils and fiends imagined by medi�val monks were so horrible as those big men with bristly mustaches. Sinister Street, vol. 2
I could cry about having to make up my mind on such bristly beasts as economic or social problems! The Book of Susan A Novel
A cynical smile played about the corners of his mouth, half hidden by the bristly black moustache. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle
Muzzle short and broad, with a group of long, very stiff, bristly whiskers on each side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli"
One would hardly be surprised, on meeting a Prime Minister nowadays, to find that he had the bristly chin and the club of Bill Sikes. The Book of This and That
Disordered, bristly hair fell over his forehead into the unquiet, black eyes, that wandered restlessly here and there. Landolin
Many a crowded lecture hall at Montpellier had seen him touch some intellectual firework with just such a twinkle behind his bristly gray brows, with just such a thin curl of lip. Where the Pavement Ends
She uttered the word “person” in a tone, innocent as the appellation was, so acid that it made, the trainer bristly and Syd more of a man. Sir Hilton's Sin
And for the first time something strange came into his eyes and rolled in warm drops into his grey bristly beard. Peasant Tales of Russia
His bristly hair, cut very short, was tinged with gray under the large, loose-fitting cap such as golfers and motorists wear. The Auto Boys' Mystery
Clark glanced down at his own shabby clothes and rubbed a rough, bristly chin. Restricted Tool
Hans drew from his pocket a second small black bristly lump, and placed it beside the first, saying, “There is the tail of the elephant in the thick bush.” Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer
No," rejoined one of his companions, a swarthy man with a pallid face on which there stood out a bristly beard; "those kids were out of the game so far as we were concerned. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam
At this cry an immense bristly grey wolf-hound darted round the corner of the stable with a furious bark, and was about to spring at the intruder's throat. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)
His complexion was very dark, and his hair was short and bristly. The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine
Now you must know that a Yezibaba is an ugly old witch with a hooked nose, a bristly face, and long scrawny hands. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales
Later in the week the sunsets would be blood-red, as the great combines increased in number and cruised the rippling ocean of wheat, leaving bristly wakes and a sky-clogging spray of dust. Brown John's Body
Involucre of united bracts, prolonged into a bristly beak beyond the fruit Beaked Hazel, Corylus rostrata. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State
Saturnine face, dark hair, dark and bristly beard. Astounding Stories, June, 1931
Scarcely had she said it, when she perceived that the windlass began to turn round of its own accord, and from out of the ascending bucket rose the bristly, angular form of Barbara Pirka. Pretty Michal
The orifice is not fimbriated; the four bristly points over the calcareous beads are absent. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species.
A sunburned face with a neglected beard; in place of the shaven mustache, a few bristly hairs; across the forehead a black handkerchief covering one eye. Timar's Two Worlds
Instinctively she shrank closer to the cliff-side, to be caught by the long trails of bramble which, with bracken and gorse, made the steep descent a bristly wall. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880.
The mealy-plum itself shows faint coral edging of pink young buds, and here and there a thistle plant, stemless as yet, looks like a green and bristly starfish in the grass. Old Plymouth Trails
His features were hard and angular, his hair short and bristly; but his beard, already grizzled, hung down in two long flaps, the ends of which were stuck into his girdle. Pretty Michal
Finally, his slight, delicate, silky moustache had become white, bristly, and shaggy, and neither dye nor cosmetic could keep it presentable. The Grandee
His forehead was covered with clammy sweat, his cheeks were livid, his lips swollen, cracked, his hair bristly, standing straight up in tufts. The Son of His Mother
And then she kissed his bristly hair and fondled him. Absolution
The noon sun was high and the north wind's chill had been fairly combed out of it by the bristly harrows of a thousand pine tops. Old Plymouth Trails
His short-cropped, bristly black hair had been shaved off; the head was now bald. The Passing of Ku Sui
His stature, the bristly red hair that flamed above a freckled face, the lightest of blue eyes that snapped with excitement, the peculiar strut of him. Slaves of Mercury
He stood now, not really grinning at me, but with an amused look under that bristly mustache, and suggested, "So you haven't seen young Gilbert?" The Million-Dollar Suitcase
Even if his hair were bristly and already grey, and his eyes rather watery, he was still a man for all that. Absolution
A faint flush of shame tinged his bristly cheek at the thought. Dreamers of the Ghetto
Short and wiry, he stared truculently at the universe through wonderfully clear blue eyes, surrounded by a bumper crop of freckles and topped by a mat of bristly red hair. The Passing of Ku Sui
There were savoury blue-shelled mussels clinging under the tips of the rocks; plump, 239 spiral whelks between the oozy tresses of the seaweed; orange starfish and bristly sea-urchins in the shallow pools. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories
Acorns in the axils of the leaves of the year, ovate, with a hemispherical, bristly or mossy cup. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination
His head shot forward; ’twas a red, bristly head, with the hair growing low on the brow, like the spruce of an overhanging cliff. The Cruise of the Shining Light
She awoke from her reverie at the touch, and her hands unclasped, and she slowly caressed the bristly head. The Hound From The North
Then the perch stuck out its bristly fins again and said, “If thou dost wish to have a chat, dear cousin, I can hear thee just as well as I am.” Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Mind and muscle were both yours—Scanlon mind and muscle—for this paltry and insignificant sum; and the consul, in his quandary, welcomed the stout, bristly haired pair as though they were angels from heaven. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas
“I’m Sheriff Neal,” interposed that individual, a slight, dark man with a bristly mustache. The Coyote A Western Story
Both pistols stabbed viciously as the monster thrust forward a thick, bristly leg to shut the door again. Loot of the Void
His head was covered with a crown of bristly grey hair that seemed to grow in patches, and his feet were both turned in one direction––to the right. The Hound From The North
And their mandibles, with fangs folded back like the blades of a pocket-knife, paired with their bristly palps, seemed like very capable weapons. The Death-Traps of FX-31
Hazily I could see scores of the bristly, manlike fish when I opened my eyes and glanced through the walls. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930
You reached the conservatory through the double drawing-room, and there, on the hot pipes, were dozens of them, ugly, squat, bristly little plants each in a separate pot. Monday or Tuesday
Only here and there crouched a huge, bristly warrior safe behind a jutting rock with his glittering eight eyes fixed on the motionless black ship below. Loot of the Void
That young man was sprawled, face up, in the cowman’s big hands, crowing and valiantly clutching at his bristly mustache. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation
The genus is known by the velvety or bristly appearance of the fruiting surface, due to smooth, projecting, thick-walled cells. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth
Again she kissed his bristly cheeks with her ruby-red lips. The Tale of Timber Town
Nor youth nor beauty, such as Venus move, “Will move the lion, or the bristly boar: “Their eyes and breasts untouch'd by brightest charms. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
Below them a bristly monster charged out of the fog, sighted them lying up among the rocks, and leaped after them. Loot of the Void
A sudden flood of crimson swept up his face from his bristly, tanned chin to his white forehead. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation
It suffered Ruby, who showed no fear of it whatever, to stroke it on its plated beak, and even to scratch it behind its bristly ears, with every sign of satisfaction. In Brief Authority
The man had a grim, bristly jaw and a twisted mouth. The Black Buccaneer
“Which had he not avoided, he as one “The bristly herd had join'd; nor had our chief, “The great Ulysses, by his tale inform'd “To Circé come, avenger of our woe. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
He was a tall man, heavily built, with a large face, thick bristly hair, and blue eyes set extraordinarily far apart. Nancy Stair A Novel
He brushed down his bristly mustache, and bent over awkwardly, to kiss his new daughter. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation
He put an arm around her, pulled her down beside him, and rubbed his bristly chin over her hair. The Ranch at the Wolverine
"Take my card in to him," said the little, bristly man. Malcolm Sage, Detective
There was a dry and mirthless laugh, showing teeth, white or discoloured, in haggard and bristly faces. The Dop Doctor
He was an aggressive, youngish fellow with a sharp, sallow face and a black, bristly moustache, cut very short. Juggernaut
He was an aggressive, red-visaged man with bristly black hair and stubbly black moustache. The Rough Road
Presently a spectre used to appear, an ancient man sinking with emaciation and squalor, with a long beard and bristly hair, wearing shackles on his legs and fetters on his hands, and shaking them. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
Next day was Sunday, and I walked by the river till I found a plot of grass sheltered from the wind by a bristly hedge of cactus. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia
Her double-gown was red and yellow; and her hair, wound up in little horn-shaped papillotes, imparted to her face quite a bristly and fierce expression. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
He wore a singlet and a pair of trousers that had been white, but were now filthy, and, perched on a shock of bristly, grey hair, an old tweed deer-stalker. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
But the bristly man spat at her as the car started, "Going far?" Free Air
It was so bristly,—just like a hedgehog! The Power of Darkness
He laughed out as he compared the bristly virile face of Bone with the pasty face of the young professor. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
He thrust it forward now, making his bristly, close-cropped red moustache stand out from his face like the quills of a porcupine. No Clue A Mystery Story
The ears were sticking in my nose and eyes when I came to myself, the sorry, brittle, bristly stuff, that I had never yet seen except in the pallet of my bed. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
She could feel his bristly chin touch her cheek. Free Air
The latter animal is too well known to need description, but the skin of the hair seal is a kind of dirty grey, flecked with dark spots, and is short and bristly. From Paris to New York by Land
Here he is a mere animal, and of disgusting appearance; small, ill-shaped, with dirty copper-coloured skin, black bristly hair, and devoid of beard. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
He slapped his thigh and thrust out his bristly moustache. No Clue A Mystery Story
It certainly bears some resemblance to a pig about the snout and cheeks; and that, with its bristly hair and burrowing habits, has410 no doubt given rise to the mistaken name. Popular Adventure Tales
He crumpled the assignment memo into a small, hard ball and hurled it at the bristly image of himself in the bar mirror. Postmark Ganymede
Then she and her mate would raise the feathers on the top of their heads until they looked rather fierce and bristly, and spread out their filmy capes of dainty plumes in a threatening way. Bird Stories
He looked old, and had now a pent-house of bristly eyebrows of a different colour from his hair. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
The bushes and small, droop-limbed trees, their branches not clothed with leaves from proper twigs but with a reddish bristly growth protruding directly from their surfaces, made a partial wall for the pocket-sized meadow. The Defiant Agents
Its cheeks are black, with long, bristly moustaches, like those of a cat; while its head resembles that of the hare or rabbit. Popular Adventure Tales
The landlord, a young man, with a bristly beard of three weeks' growth, showed us into the milk room, where there was a bed of reindeer skins. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland
The morning breeze played in the long white locks of the old man, whose wan features were framed, as it were, by a short, bristly, snow-white beard. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
And our old man flashed back a trench that was fairly bristly with machine guns. War and the Weird
He shrugged his shoulders and brushed one side of his rather bristly blond mustache. Working With the Working Woman
He was a cadaverous man with high cheekbones and short, bristly black hair and a tiny black moustache. The Green Rust
“Oh, yes, sir, just as if you had had a touch with a sooty finger; but down don’t count with me in shaving; it’s what comes up bristly and strong.” In the Mahdi's Grasp
So I made up my mind to the last, being bristly, and, with my monkey up, I dashed at him. The Golden Magnet
Its cheeks are black, with long, bristly moustaches, like those of a cat while its head resembles that of the hare or rabbit. The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
His moustache, always bristly, looked as if it was composed of fine wires charged with electricity. Gossamer 1915
But Dopping was not to be beat He's a bristly old bear at times, but he always was a gentleman. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918
Hunters and dogs approaching him, his ear The sound of feet perceived; upridging high His bristly back and glaring fire, he sprang Forth from the shrubs, and in defiance stood Near and right opposite. The Odyssey of Homer
The rachis of the spike is angular, with scattered tubercle-based bristly hairs. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
You see that the last segment of the body is provided with a long pair of bristly tails, by means of which the creature can suspend itself at the top of the water. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
The clerk to whom he addressed himself led the way to an inner office, where our hero was confronted with a little fat, bristly man, with a keen though kindly face of undoubted Teutonic type. Under the Rebel's Reign
And the doctor reflected a little, drawing his great, square hand down over his mouth and heavy, bristly chin. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
"For not a woman only, but young child Tickling the bristly boar with tender hand, Will lay him prostrate sooner than an athlete." Plutarch's Morals
His thick, bristly hair hung right over his eyes. The Day of Wrath
When angry, the agouti stamps with the fore-feet, grunts like a young pig, and erects the bristly hair upon its crupper after the manner of porcupines. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
The heels often become congested owing to the irritation caused by the short, bristly hairs in clipped heels. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
He wore glasses upon a most pugnacious nose, and his large, round head was covered with short, bristly, jetty hair. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
He more than made up for his lack of cranial growth, however, by his great, shaggy, bristly brows, black as jet and firmly anchored to jutting supraorbital ridges. Unwise Child
He couldn't see in the rain, but his leg told him that it was something hairy, almost bristly. The White Feather Hex
I always feel bristly all over after one of her parochial visits, and I know Aunt Madge feels the same. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
Later the spot first affected has become entirely bald, and a circular row of hairs around this are erect, bristly, broken, and split. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
They are sometimes marked by a line of bristly hair growing in the opposite direction, which surrounds them, forming a sort of outline by the upward and downward growing hair. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
He greatly resembled his mother and grandmother: he had just such a pronounced nose; but he had bristly hair, like his father, only black and not so closely cropped. Debts of Honor
Hispid: bristly: sparsely set with short, stiff hair. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
But of all extraordinary animals is the Breton pig, as tall as a donkey; a lean, long-necked, ragged, bristly, savage-looking beast, as ill kept as its master, and it runs like a greyhound when approached. Brittany & Its Byways
But the sharp point only touched it, and unwounded, the boar rushed on, its gross, bristly head down, to disembowel, if it could, the gallant Nestor. A Book of Myths
But the suspense was soon over, for the nearer bushes parted suddenly and out upon the tote-road floundered an immense moose, his bulbous nose wagging, his bristly mane twitching, his stilted fore legs straddled defiantly. The Rainy Day Railroad War
They were all legs and teeth and bristly fur, the meat almost inedible. Space Prison
Flocculus -i: a hairy or bristly appendage on the posterior coxa of some Hymenoptera. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Thick legs, thick tails, sunken eyes, and deep necks, with thick skin and bristly hair, always point to sluggish feeders. Cattle and Cattle-breeders
His moustache was also cut short and bristly over a full, brutal mouth. The Prussian Officer
He even endeavored to force a smile but it was hardly more than a ridging of his cheek muscles under his bristly beard. The Rainy Day Railroad War
The sallow man squirted tobacco at a knot in the floor and rubbed his bristly chin with the palm of a hand. Oh, You Tex!
Beg or little he was in the countryside's bye-name, but in truth he was a fellow of six feet, as hairy as a brock and in the same straight bristly fashion. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
He was a man of gigantic frame; his head covered with a scarlet cap, his face half hidden by a bristly black beard. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1
He looked at her, stroking his own bristly chin. Despair's Last Journey
Ichabod spoke no word, but writhed his twisted features into a grin which expressed at once humorous deprecation and expectancy, and rabbed the back of his veiny hand across his bristly lips. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray
An old, one-eyed black, with a bristly face, rested a Snider on his hip, the muzzle directed at Albright, who, in turn, covered him back with the Mauser. A Son Of The Sun
Whitefoot growled at the word "exciseman," showing a set of firm white teeth under a black bristly lip turned up wickedly at the corners. Patsy
One of these thin, sallow, dyspeptic parties, with deep lines down either side of his mouth, a bristly, jutty little mustache, and ratty little eyes. The House of Torchy
He put the envelope to his bristly lips and kissed it. Despair's Last Journey
It certainly bears some resemblance to a pig about the snout and cheeks; and that, with its bristly hair and burrowing habits, has no doubt given rise to the mistaken name. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
He was a little, wiry man with a bristly, protruding chin. A Voice in the Wilderness
There," declared the honest fellow, with great140 apparent satisfaction, "I'm delighted that you didn't scream and make a fuss over my bristly beard. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania
And his whiskers are the bristly kind—straw-colored, I should say. The House of Torchy
Shann continued to walk forward, bringing up one hand, not to strike at that sweating, bristly jaw, but as if to push the other out of his path. Storm Over Warlock
It is of a dirty greyish-brown colour with black stripes or patches, has a rounded head with black muzzle and eyes, and short hind legs, so that the bristly back slopes downwards. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
Some of the color still holds in the bristly mustache169 and the ear tufts. Torchy and Vee
Imagine bristly Berkshire swine Upon the throne of Cœur de Lion!! Terry A Tale of the Hill People
It’s ill to make a bonny silk purse   From the ear of a bristly boar; It’s ill to provoke a shaveling’s curse,   When the way lies him before. The Bon Gaultier Ballads
Many of these are only a few inches long, but they make the whole of the upper part of the whale's mouth rough and bristly. Chatterbox, 1905.
"Lord, no," said Quin, keeping his hand over his bristly chin. Quin
Then a huge bristly thing fell upon him, and smothered and gasping he felt himself swept along, and then flying through the air. Piccaninnies
Dressed in a soiled, shiny, black garb, and with a bristly mustache and beard which often showed egg of a morning, he talked blatantly of having been in Paris as a soldier in '70. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
The crown of the head is densely covered with bristly hairs, regularly disposed and somewhat elongated on the vertex so as to resemble a cap, whence the name. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Of the bristly baboon he condescended to say nothing, and he wound up by giving her a cold kiss, and saying that he would meet her at Lady Monk's. Can You Forgive Her?
His hands and feet seemed too big for the rest of him, and his blond hair stuck up in a bristly mop above his high forehead. Quin
Sure enough, there, between the sacks, was another one of those bristly heads! Banzai! by Parabellum
They wore helmets made to resemble the heads of ferocious wild beasts, crested with bristly hair or surmounted by bright feather plumes. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
The doe is a little smaller, and has little black bristly knobs where the horns of the buck are. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
She would have spoken of no man as a baboon with a bristly beard. Can You Forgive Her?
This plant was the Bugloss of the older botanists, and it corresponds to our Common Bugloss, so called from the shape and bristly surface of its leaves, which resemble bous-glossa, the tongue of an ox. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
The man addressed as Hickey turned to his two companions, one of whom was a tall, lanky chap, with straggly black hair, and bristly, unshaven chin. The Border Boys Across the Frontier
It was not a pleasant story, and my efforts to picture the scene gave me rather a bristly feeling along the pin-feather area of my anatomy. The Prairie Wife
The body is covered with very coarse hair, which assumes the form of a bristly mane on the neck and shoulders, and gives the beast a ferocious appearance, which does not belie its disposition. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
He was a tall, wiry, strong man, with a bald head and bristly red beard, which, however, was cut off from his upper and under lip. Can You Forgive Her?
His hair he beats angrily with a bristly tool. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
At last she questioned Knight, and complained that the bristly barrier was an eyesore. The Second Latchkey
Thence the roar Of lions, raging at their chains, the cries Of bears close-caged, and many a bristly boar, 10 The yells of monstrous wolves at midnight fill the shore. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
Hair of the body rough, bristly, and straggling; that of the head shorter, and more closely adpressed. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Indeed, his beard seemed even more fierce and bristly than in the old days—probably shaving had tended to strengthen the roots. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery. The Last Man
The round balls of the sycamore hang till the high winds of March loosen their strong stalks and then they break open and the club-shaped nutlets inside spread their bristly hairs to the breeze. Some Winter Days in Iowa
Lost in wonder and dismay They mark the eyes, late terrible with ire, 307 The face, the bristly breast, the jaw's extinguished fire. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
The hair is coarse and bristly, and usually prolonged into a sort of crest or mane along the neck and shoulders, and to a slighter degree down the back; the tail is bushy. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
The little marshal was too far away for them to perceive how his teeth set beneath the bristly mustache. Bob Hampton of Placer
Moreover, the deep sea, besides keeping all the air off, was most horribly bristly, even on the belly. The Way of the Wild
The peacocks shrilled and hopped from back to back for such grain as fell upon the bristly backs of the pigs. The Adventures of Kathlyn
Then shoreward sends beeves twenty to the rest, A hundred boars, of broad and bristly chine, 739 A hundred lambs and ewes and gladdening gifts of wine. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
The inner fur is soft, downy, and of an ash colour, the outer longer, hispid, harsh and bristly. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
A lean, wiry old girl, Aunty is, with her white hair bobbed up careless and a big shell comb stickin' up bristly, like a picket fence, on top. On With Torchy
He became a beast cast in old, old bronze, and as hard as bronze; and when he moved, it was stiffly, and all bristly, and on end. The Way of the Wild
It has no calyx; six stamens; the filaments short and hair-like; the anthers oblong, with a bristly point, and one pistil, the style being cylindrical, and longer than the stamens. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852
And clad in robes of purest white, the priest Leads forth the youngling of a bristly swine, And two-year sheep, by shearer's hands unfleec'd. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
The new arrival was received by the gaoler, a man with bristly grey hair, a prominent forehead, and pronounced features which incessant ill-humour had twisted into a lasting grimace. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross
Then he pries the stubby pipe out from the bristly whiskers and points a crooked finger toward a little bunch of old apple trees on a low knoll. On With Torchy
He had now no whiskers, but an immense protuberance of bristly black hair, rising like a wave above his kerchief. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
The Scotch greyhound is a larger and more powerful animal than the common greyhound; and its hair, instead of being sleek and smooth, is long, stiff and bristly. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C.
His unhelmeted head was grizzled, his coarse, tanned face with heavy jowls bristly enough to suggest he had not bothered to use smooth-cream for some days. Plague Ship
His beard was bristly and flame-coloured, his face was crimson and pimply; lion-like locks hung in profusion about the collar of his shabby jacket. Mike Fletcher A Novel
And for two minutes there I listens to the clock tick and watches the old sport's white whiskers grow bristly. On With Torchy
Cap'n Sproul had nipped his bristly beard and gazed away from them at the ceiling, and said he would see what could be done about it. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
But alas! a bristly beard covered his chin, and the maid was left ruefully rubbing her pouting lips. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
It was the ordinary car of a Southern railroad, and leaning his head against the harsh, bristly plush of the seat, he had before him the usual examples of Southern passengers. The Voice of the People
Then raised Diana clamorous dispute, And contest hot between them, all alike, Curetes and Ætolians fierce in arms The boar's head claiming, and his bristly hide. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper
"Trusty, Trusty," he said, "do you know me, Trusty?" and his tears fell fast into the dog's bristly coat. How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories
"Not tickly and bristly," said Tiny with firmness; and she strutted up the walk for a space or two, and then turned round to laugh over her shoulder. The Brownies and Other Tales
One by one they returned from the forest to the trysting-place, carrying with them the shaggy fell of the bear, the bristly boar-skin, and the grey pelt of the wolf. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
They gave proof of powerful strength, and the thick fell of bristly hair with which they were covered argued an amazing hardihood of constitution and tremendous physical energy. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
They quickly flayed the beast, and the heroes who had shared in the hunt divided the flesh among them; but the head and the bristly hide they offered to Meleager. Hero Tales
He had the size of his father and the bristly coat of his mother. How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories
Papa shook his head, and combed his bristly white beard with his fingers. Bressant
He was seated on his hind legs, gazing up at the moon with his fine warm coat all bristly, scoffing and scoffing. Christmas Outside of Eden
Here Honoria to avoid hearing something she could not forgive put her plump hand over his bristly mouth. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
With these words, he bore the grinning head and the bristly hide to the young huntress, and laid them at her feet. Hero Tales
The caudex is altogether similar in structure to that of Alsophyla, equally furnished with strong black bristly radicles towards its base. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Yet the beautiful face seems to take pity on him--seems to read the heart which beats under that burry, bristly form--seems to reach forth a hand. David Lockwin—The People's Idol
The perfect, or heart-meshes, are those in which each particular hair has its particular place, and must be of a silky texture, and not of a bristly consistency, like a worn-out tooth-brush. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
Did they just touch, with exquisite contact, his bristly chin, or was it a divine illusion? The Lion's Share
I felt a tuft of bristly hair under my arm. Atlantida
For a foul scar has disgraced the left part of Messius's bristly forehead. The Works of Horace
The soprano answered: Tell me, Hänsel in the valley, While the merry cuckoos crow, Is thy bristly beard as bristly As it was a year ago? Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories
So she brought him to the stye where they were confined together, and opening the gate drove them all forth, a herd of bristly swine. Stories from the Odyssey
A golden powder seemed to fall on her bristly black hair and her kindly face with its flat nose and thick lips. A Love Episode
"Wear no iron, nor haircloth, nor irspilles felles"—that is, no skins having hard or bristly hair like that of goats. Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850
They are composed of a regular ring of strap-shaped, bright purple petals, springing from the erect bristly tube, and in the centre a disk-like cluster of rose-coloured stamens, the stigma standing well above them. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
The bristly ridge of its chine showed black against the red west. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
The Prince agreed and invited Herrfurth to lunch, but afterwards told Bismarck he could not stand him, "with his bristly beard, his dryness and tediousness." William of Germany
I was no more of a bristly hedgehog than you when I came into the world, but I have gradually grown to be one. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
He saw that the other was past middle age, for his face was covered with a bristly beard of a week's growth, verging on gray. The Chums of Scranton High out for the Pennant
Stem globose; flowers in a dense cap-like head, composed of layers of bristly wool and slender spines, amongst which the small flowers are developed. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
Presently a specter used to appear, an ancient man sinking with emaciation and squalor, with a long beard and bristly hair, wearing shackles on his legs and fetters on his hands, and shaking them. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
She took from her brow the Olympian aureola, and placed it on the bristly head of a gnome! The Man Who Laughs
A bristly pig carrying a bell about his neck, ran wildly up and down the grassy slope in search of chestnuts. The Italians
The female surgeon fastened a poultice upon the tattered cartilage by passing a bandage around the skipper's sandy and bristly head. Overland
His perpetual squint and bristly, short beard were a great injustice to him. Darrel of the Blessed Isles
He stood by the table scratching his bristly head and looking the picture of ludicrous bewilderment. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta
The third man, a grizzled and bristly old warrior with a limp, broke in with a roar. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On
They are either smooth or variously hairy or bristly, and are always destitute of the regular scales with which fishes are generally invested. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832
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