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The dog's hair bristled up with anger.
The consequence was that every rule bristled with exceptions, and legislation grew proportionally more complicated and difficult of application than would have been the case had all men been equal in the eye of the law.
Then the way went by long lines of dark windows diversified by turreted towers and porches of eccentric shapes, where old stone lions and grotesque monsters bristled outside dens of shadow and snarled at the evening gloom over the escutcheons they held in their grip.
At a press conference last week, he bristled at the notion that he was expected to win the New York primary, even though he is ahead there in the polls.
Johnny Apple bristled at that comment, accusing Safire of "eating my lunch.
You could argue that this was shameless pandering--I bristled at it at the time--but with some distance I can see the merits: It gave a thrill for people who, unlike us, don't see their names in print.
Some Democrats similarly bristled at Clinton's lobbying against the impeachment inquiry.
John McCain bristled at this, saying Zinni's testimony was an "insult to my intelligence.
Wolves are too suspicious to be often taken in traps; and when pursued they run with their noses almost touching the ground, their eyes glowing like fire, the hair of their head and neck bristled up, their tail drawn close to their legs.
He was grazing one day when a cat from the neighbourhood bristled up her hair, and set up her back at him; and the poor deer, seized with a sudden and unaccountable panic, sprang over a precipice two hundred feet high, and was killed on the spot.
The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.
The piece bristled with complications, and Buononcini [49]confidently anticipated that Handel would break down over its performance.
Prince Andrew was in command of a regiment, and the management of that regiment, the welfare of the men and the necessity of receiving and giving orders, engrossed him.
The burning of Smolensk and its abandonment made an epoch in his life.
A novel feeling of anger against the foe made him forget his own sorrow.
He was entirely devoted to the affairs of his regiment and was considerate and kind to his men and officers.
In the regiment they called him "our prince," were proud of him and loved him.
But he was kind and gentle only to those of his regiment, to Timokhin and the like-people quite new to him, belonging to a different world and who could not know and understand his past.
As soon as he came across a former acquaintance or anyone from the staff, he bristled up immediately and grew spiteful, ironical, and contemptuous.
Everything that reminded him of his past was repugnant to him, and so in his relations with that former circle he confined himself to trying to do his duty and not to be unfair.
" His beard bristled exultantly, his chest was thrown out, and his hand was thrust into the front of his jacket.
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