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It was a Sunday afternoon and the town was bristling with people.
The bristling scales of the involucre, often tinged with purple at the tips, are a conspicuous feature.
Dense, matted, wool-like hairs, that cover the bristling stems of most thistles, make climbing mighty unpleasant for ants, which ever delight in pilfering sweets.
Now his feet becoming entangled in the cottony fibers wound about the scaly armor, and a bristling bodyguard thrusting spears at him in his struggles to escape, death happily releases him.
Later in the season, when the bur-marigolds are transformed into armories bristling with rusty, two-pronged, and finely-barbed pitchforks (Bidens = two teeth), our real quarrel with the tribe begins.
These bristling seeds, shaped like sad-irons, reflect in their title the ire of the persecuted man who named them Beggar's Lice.
Gangs of workmen cleared away the ignoble bricks; the little tenements vanished; a broad space bristling with little garden-walls gaped where they had stood; then the walls vanished; and nothing at all was left but holes where cellars had been; then they raised a hoarding round the whole, and began to dig out the foundation.
His castle was soon bristling with arms and occupied by 2000 men, who at once announced to the governor that they purposed to do battle with him, to decide the question of the fourteen piastres.
Of the Rhenish green glass, the only other forms that I shall mention are the upright barrel-shaped beaker covered with prunts of various forms, in which the Mai-trank, a kind of ‘cup,’ was brewed, and finally the Krautstrunk or cabbage-stalk, a tall cylindrical glass bristling with formidable thorny prunts.
A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates.
The bared teeth are clearly human, but the feral eyes, looking sharply to the side, the curling upper lip, and the bristling facial hair suggest a cat-person ready to pounce.
My hunch also tells me that there are more people who use media as a singular noun than there are people who write bristling letters to the editor insisting on its immutable plurality-which is to say, a lot.
Even in Kuala Lumpur - as modern an urban sprawl as you could imagine, criss-crossed by expressways and bristling with skyscrapers - a construction site abandoned a moment too long to the tropical sun and rain will soon sprout a luxuriant growth of lallang ferns and wild creepers.
San Gimignano The haunting silhouette of this “Medieval Manhattan,” a skyline bristling with truncated towers dating to the 12th and 13th centuries, and its lovingly preserved historic center make it the most magical of Tuscany’s hill towns.
For the best view of that awesomely rich façade, finished in 1813, and bristling silhouette of marble pinnacles and statues, stand in the courtyard of the Palazzo Reale south of the cathedral.
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