What is "bristling"

Usage examples of "bristling".

Behind him Tirammer, furred giant of the nearest neighboring grove, heaved his body stiffly erect, fur bristling on his shoulders.

Mockdirad lunged to their feet, shoulders bristling, bare chests swelling.

A most unsociable dog he proved to be, resenting all their advances, refusing to let them lay hands on him, menacing them with bared fangs and bristling hair.

The children stole timidly back among their elders, and bristling dogs fawned up to him and sniffed suspiciously.

She wore her body hair plucked clean in great patches over her body, and where hair remained it had been stiffened into great bristling spikes.

They eyed each other warily and made subdued displays, showing bristling hair and waving erections.

Winloki spied Skerry striding in her direction, his dark hair bristling and his green cloak flapping behind him.

Almost as swiftly, their small party was suddenly surrounded by men bristling with weapons, outnumbered twenty to one.

Ariane fixed him with a bristling stare, which Ranulf proceeded to ignore entirely as he turned away to wash at the basin.

Bug, who stood in the hallway on my other side, bristling like a diminutive hedgehog.

Hermon Husband nose-to-nose with the risen Barlow, his round black hat thrust down on his head and his beard bristling with pugnacity.

Several men, bristling with knives and pistols, were swarming out of the smaller boat onto the dock.

His shirtsleeves were rolled up, revealing beefy arms bristling with dark hair.

When angry it growls most audibly for such a small beast, and this is generally accompanied by a bristling of the hair, especially of the tail.

The boy froze, sweat bursting on his forehead, his neck bristling with panic.