Bristling Sentence Examples

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  • He was still bristling with stormy energy.

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  • The tension in the room was high, each creature bristling with magic.

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  • The two deities were bristling.

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  • The demon lord was bristling.

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  • He was frozen in place, bristling.

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  • Both were bristling with stormy energy that made her body tingle unpleasantly.

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  • Standing in the middle of a dirt road, god-knew-where, stuck between the bristling Black God and Original Other, Jessi couldn't imagine her situation getting worse.

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  • Darian was bristling, ready to attack, while Jule frowned.

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  • Then one or two tactical blunders were committed; and the tsar, taking courage, enveloped the little band in a vast semicircle bristling with the most modern guns, which fired five times to the Swedes' once, and swept away the guards before they could draw their swords.

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  • Along the western side of northern Anti-Lebanon stretches the Khasha'a, a rough red region lined with juniper trees, a succession of the hardest limestone crests and ridges, bristling with bare rock and crag that shelter tufts of vegetation, and are divided by a succession of grassy ravines.

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  • Otkar continues to answer " Not yet," adding at last " When thou shalt see the fields bristling with an iron harvest, and the Po and the Ticino swollen with sea-floods, inundating the walls of the city with iron billows, then shall Karl be nigh at hand."

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  • In works of art he is represented, like Ares, as a young man of splendid physical proportions, with bristling hair like a horse's mane and a slender neck.

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  • The secularization of Prussia was opposed by the more religious of Sigismund's counsellors, and the king certainly exposed himself to considerable odium in the Catholic world; but taking all the circumstances into consideration, it was perhaps the shortest way out of a situation bristling with difficulties.

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  • It left Europe bristling with feudal castles, and already alert for the march of progress.

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  • The Black God was bristling with checked power that made her inch away from him.

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  • He looked around, bristling, and then saw the Black God reappear with Bianca.

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  • A doctor emerged soon after, hesitating as his gaze swept over the room full of massive, bristling men, until Linda came forward.

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  • Bristling with 21st Century technology, the building incorporates many environmentally friendly facilities and uses numerous Omron products in its control and security systems.

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  • During the last two or three years of his life Louis lived in great isolation, "seeing no one, speaking with no one, except such as he commanded," in the château of Plessis-les-Tours, that "spider's nest" bristling with watch towers, and guarded only by the most trusty servitors.

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  • Karay, his hair bristling, and probably bruised or wounded, climbed with difficulty out of the gully.

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  • Self-determination in the world has resulted not in peace but in new boundaries bristling with bayonets.

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  • He paused, bristling with lightning and rage at the thought of Darian betraying their family.

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  • No need to be jealous, Gabriel said, bristling.

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  • Both demon lord and half-demon were bristling with power, the Dark One's growl audible long before Gabriel reached them.

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  • He wasn't bristling, as she expected.

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  • Secondly, there are so-called " subjective sensations," without any external object as stimulus, most commonly in vision, but also in touch, which is liable to formication, or the feeling of creeping in the skin, and to horripilation, or the feeling of bristling in the hair; yet, even in " subjective sensations," we perceive something sensible, which, however, must be within, and not outside, the organism.

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  • During the last two or three years of his life Louis lived in great isolation, "seeing no one, speaking with no one, except such as he commanded," in the château of Plessis-les-Tours, that "spider's nest" bristling with watch towers, and guarded only by the most trusty servitors.

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  • Willemoes Suhm, which makes up for its vanished eyes by its extraordinarily elongate and dentated claws; in Psalidopus huxleyi, Wood-Mason and Alcock (1892), bristling with spikes from head to tail; in the Nematocarcinidae, with their long thread-like limbs and longer antennae; in species of Aristaeopsis reported by Chun from deep water off the east coast of Africa, bright red prawns nearly a foot long, with antennae about five times the length of the body.

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