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The Dog, with punk spikes bristling in his wet fur
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" He pointed to a chamber bristling with probes and encased in superconducting coils
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unfinished towers of the façade, but the bristling spires of
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” He scratched his unshaven chin again, bristling with a few days growth
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“Great,” I said, my words bristling with sarcasm
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“Am I to stand here and consider my fate?” Jean called through the tent wall, though Terese made no reply, the shadow of a quill feather bristling over the desk where the woman sat
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Hundreds of men had been pressed into each vessel and the gunwales were bristling with spears and shields
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He wore a utility belt bristling with daggers
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(‘Boo-boo-boo-boop…’ and he imagined the bristling radar nose cones follow him out
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“C’mon, Bill,” I chided him, bristling with confidence
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The only sounds reaching them were the intermittent thrashing sounds of rock flung against the walls, mingled with the tumultuous and disarrayed yells of the men defending the city and the bristling fires that had engulfed it once more, for what seemed to be the last time
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‘Are there any fighter vessels, something small and fast and bristling with weapons?’
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James Perry was a sleek, rubicund man, with a bristling white moustache, bushy white eyebrows, and a shining bald head
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Every child who came to the end of the conveyor was bitten in the heart by the witch, her tongue bristling with thorns and a needle at the tip
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grass or the sharp snap of a long-dead piece of brush kept his hair bristling with sudden alarm
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The manticore threw off his coat and transformed into his true self, his lion claws extended and his spiky tail bristling with poison barbs
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Glaze, lean and mean in black codpiece, boots, dog-collar and armbands bristling with shiny metal spikes, leaped onto the stage, hands on hips, solemn, hard, and not even slightly ridiculous
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When North India is bristling under its hot summers and one is not inclined to cook
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Thrusting Bêlit aside, Conan bounded up, his sword a long silver glitter in the moonlight, his hair bristling at what he saw
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There the Freebooters lay in careless heaps, mustaches bristling, earrings glinting
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But behind him sounded the shouts of the prison guards, returning up the alley at a run, and still the mailed figures before him barred his way with a bristling wall of steel
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He whirled back to her, the short hairs on his neck bristling
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He could see the gleaming wedge of steel drawn up at the head of the terraces, the burganets of the archers glinting among the rocks and bushes, the silent knights motionless on their steeds, their pennons flowing above their helmets, their lances rising in a bristling thicket
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Through a whistling cloud of arrows they plowed to break like a thundering wave on the bristling wall of spears and shields
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Marines would first look for command and control locations so they built several locations bristling with rotating radar dishes and antennas where the attacking helicopters would have to fly into a canyon to reach the decoy
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The patrol ship was bristling with antennae and sensors in keeping with its mission of finding illicit cargoes amongst the thousands of containers that moved through the port each week
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He stood between her legs, hair bristling
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He was bristling to tell
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With the hairs on the back of his neck bristling, Feltus stepped into the doorway though he had already assumed Terence was dead, with his trusted assistants close behind
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hair on the back of his neck bristling
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arms, bristling and chirping
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kissing a bristling muzzle
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The hull surface of the Morg command ship, a huge disk-shaped ship bristling with antimatter cannons, was now being chewed up by the disintegrator fire and the shells of the impulse cannons of the interceptor
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creatures of emotion, bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity
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into the hide-out, literally bristling with armament
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I pulled away and saw Wille and Padlimaird headed towards the door, pokers bristling in their arms
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A monster burst onto the hilltop, bristling with black wings and yellow eyes
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There was a bristling of energy about her
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He was bristling with the excitement and opportunity of this new ability
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‘Your dedication to the play and, indeed, the future of this entire company is touching,’ I shouted after them, bristling with sarcasm
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A vision of the manticore popped into Hal’s head, looming out of the fog with a grin on its face, and that terrible tail curled up and over its head, swaying in the air with quills bristling
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Behind him, the manticore watched warily, hunkered low to the ground, its tail high over its head and bristling with quills
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gave out a long low growl, its fur bristling on its neck solid as a rock
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Mary – visibly bristling with indignant affect – somehow managed to hold her tongue
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Was she really only a conventional spinster, shrinking back shocked at a touch of naked naturalness? Wasn't there much in what that short-haired child was so passionately saying about the rightness, the saneness, of reaction from horror? Wasn't it nature's own protection against too much death? After all, what was the good of doubling horror, of being so much horrified at the horrible that you stayed rooted there and couldn't move, and became, with your starting eyes and bristling hair, a horror yourself?
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Finias stood his ground for a moment, no doubt bristling at being told what to do, but he relented and walked away
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Her eyes followed his towards the darkness from where they had come, and her hand found his thick, black fur bristling sharply
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The gangly man went white, his massive beard bristling as he stumbled out of Jaron’s way
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ground, bristling with anger at the injustice of it all; he had not
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The infantry formed six regiments, bristling with
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prepared; a hedge of bristling steel-tipped pikes awaited the
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The girls filed out, muttering to each other and bristling with indignation
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The tower was fully locked down, as to be expected and bristling with the enemy
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„How the fuck can you do that you stupid cunt?' the guy barked with a bristling
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Roy and I were having a counter lunch at the old hotel in Innisfail and both still bristling
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The Bank of England emerges; and the Monument with its bristling head of golden hair; the dray horses crossing London Bridge show grey and strawberry and iron-coloured
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As I look on the bayonets bristling over their shoulders,
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Here the Distressed One and the other duennas raised the veils with which they were covered, and disclosed countenances all bristling with beards, some red, some black, some white, and some grizzled, at which spectacle the duke and duchess made a show of being filled with wonder
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There was a feeling of horror, a kind of bristling in the darkness, and a sense of blood
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Joseph seemed sitting in a sort of elysium alone, beside a roaring fire; a quart of ale on the table near him, bristling with large pieces of toasted oat-cake; and his black, short pipe in his mouth
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Terry, Bruce and Thomas were bristling with excitement
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Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at ₣20,000; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering–pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top–shell snails—greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun–carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred–star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery–furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother–of–pearl; green
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Then, as specimens of other genera, blowfish resembling a dark brown egg, furrowed with white bands, and lacking tails; globefish, genuine porcupines of the sea, armed with stings and able to inflate themselves until they look like a pin cushion bristling with needles; seahorses common to every ocean; flying dragonfish with long snouts and highly distended pectoral fins shaped like wings, which enable them, if not to fly, at least to spring into the air; spatula–shaped paddlefish whose tails are covered with many scaly rings; snipefish with long jaws, excellent animals twenty–five centimeters long and gleaming with the most cheerful colors; bluish gray dragonets with wrinkled heads; myriads of leaping blennies with black stripes and long pectoral fins, gliding over the surface of the water with prodigious speed; delicious sailfish that can hoist their fins in a favorable current like so many unfurled sails; splendid nurseryfish on which nature has lavished yellow, azure, silver, and gold; yellow mackerel with wings made of filaments; bullheads forever spattered with mud, which make distinct hissing sounds; sea robins whose livers are thought to be poisonous; ladyfish that can flutter their eyelids; finally, archerfish with long, tubular snouts, real oceangoing flycatchers, armed with a rifle unforeseen by either Remington or Chassepot: it slays insects by shooting them with a simple drop of water
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Among other specimens in these two branches, I noted some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange–hued lucina with circular shells, awl–shaped auger shells, some of those Persian murex snails that supply the Nautilus with such wonderful dye, spiky periwinkles fifteen centimeters long that rose under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over with spines, lamp shells, edible duck clams that feed the Hindu marketplace, subtly luminous jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra, and finally some wonderful Oculina flabelliforma, magnificent sea fans that fashion one of the most luxuriant tree forms in this ocean
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There also were stony masses buried beneath carpets of axidia and sea anemone, bristling with long, vertical water plants, then strangely contoured blocks of lava that testified to all the fury of those plutonic developments
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The long snake was covered with seashell rubble and bristling with foraminifera; a crust of caked gravel protected it from any mollusks that might bore into it
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Harlow, in a brief but powerful speech, bristling with numerous sanguinary references to the bottomless pit, protested against any interference with the sacred rights of property
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Five minutes elapsed, during which Franz saw the shepherd going along a narrow path that led over the irregular and broken surface of the Campagna; and finally he disappeared in the midst of the tall red herbage, which seemed like the bristling mane of an enormous lion
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He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling
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On the other side of the road were several empty houses, bristling with different house agents' advertisement boards and bills
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Still, they were bristling with satellite dishes
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Then he rises from his cot and takes the little shortwave radio out of the first-aid box—six years old and bristling with his modifications, replacement wires, a new solenoid, Jutta’s notations orbiting the tuning coil—and carries it into the alley behind the house and crushes it with a brick
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At the crest of a low hill, her father looks over his shoulder: vehicles are backed up as far as he can see, carryalls and vans, a sleek new cloth-top wraparound V-12 wedged between two mule carts, some cars with wooden axles, some run out of gasoline, some with households of furniture strapped to the roof, a few with entire bristling farmyards crammed onto trailers, chickens and pigs in cages, cows clomping alongside, dogs panting against windshields
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He was a tall, handsome, swarthy fellow, clad in a suit of grey flannel, with a Panama hat, a bristling black beard, and a great, aggressive hooked nose, and flourishing a cane as he walked
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Far away I could catch glimpses of the old grey building with its bristling Tudor chimneys, but the drive ran through a dense shrubbery, and I saw no more of my man
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From a rise of the road on the shoulder of Crooksbury Hill we could see the grim Hall bristling out from amidst the ancient oaks, which, old as they were, were still younger than the building which they surrounded
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"My brother's a sort of poet, too, you know," he said to the bristling strangers
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were afraid of the great, bristling buck, with his strange shock of fur and his smell The hutch rabbits looked at each other in bewilderment
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Well might the terrified weasels dive under the tables and spring madly up at the windows! Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney! Well might tables and chairs be upset, and glass and china be sent crashing on the floor, in the panic of that terrible moment when the four Heroes strode wrathfully into the room! The mighty Badger, his whiskers bristling, his great cudgel whistling through the air; Mole, black and grim, brandishing his stick and shouting his awful war-cry, 'A Mole! A Mole!' Rat; desperate and determined, his belt bulging with weapons of every age and every variety; Toad, frenzied with excitement and injured pride, swollen to twice his ordinary size, leaping into the air and emitting Toad-whoops that chilled them to the marrow! 'Toad he went a-pleasuring!' he yelled
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"Rowsby Woof sat up and looked about him, bristling
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The great field at the foot of the escarpment had been reaped, but the straw had not yet been burned and lay in long pale rows upon the darker stubble, tenting over the bristling stalks and the weeds of harvest -- knotgrass and in the old moonlight
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remained where he was, bristling and snarling, bloody-fanged and bloody-clawed
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It's covered with fur and has bristling whiskers and when it "No, you haven't yet," admitted the gallant captain
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glimpse of a great shaggy mass, something with rough and bristling hair of a withered grey colour, fading away to white in its lower parts, the huge body supported upon short, thick, curving legs
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room which was farthest from my refuge, his whiskers bristling angrily, and his tail switching and lashing
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The Professor, with his face flushed, his nostrils dilated, and his beard bristling, was now in a proper Berserk mood
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To see him walking like a comic opera Sultan, with this badge of authority in his hand, his black beard bristling in front of him, his toes pointing at each step, and a train of wide-eyed Indian girls behind him, clad in their slender drapery of bark cloth, is one of the most
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glint in his eyes under their bristling brows, 'you may ask what is the use
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`What are you going to do then? ' asked Pippin, undaunted by the wizard's bristling brows
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hill a ring was made facing all ways, bristling with spear and sword
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Three miles away he came upon a fresh trail that sent his neck hair rippling and bristling, It led straight toward camp and John Thornton