bristling

• His huge black beard was bristling, his great chest was heaving with indignation, and his arrogant grey eyes swept me up and down as the backwash of his anger fell upon me Infernal, idle, overpaid rascals!' —  The Disintegration Machine and Other Stories
• Gnarled fingers stroked bristling, almost invisible white whiskers. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
• What do you want with Terry The two deputies skirted Jeff and the still-bristling, now sitting, Jingo and charged on after Terry, who had vanished into the brushy tangle of sassafras, laurel, and young ash and hemlock that shrouded the grown-over mine land above the kennel. —  EQMM,August2006
• CNN curiously doesn't posit on how such "bristling" likely takes place because those officials know they face war not just with an enemy, but also "on the media front" with the likes of a CNN. —  Expat Yank
• Dear friends, I confront you today, my whiskers a-bristling with outrage. —  Shakesville

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