bristle up

At that my old dear bristled up - absolutely out of the question!

It's a particularly effective technique when the characters bristle up against each other.

It was this very quality that made Ned bristle up and "get on his ear," as he said later.

He could feel her back behind him, bristling up with indignation like a hedgehog.

He grew to ten feet in height, with spikes bristling up through his robe.

Babbie was on his feet immediately, every bristle up.

Far below the jagged points of the boulders bristled up, dark and menacing.

The sides of the tank bristled up with carabines.

Bristle up your tail and spit at him.

The stiff quiff of white hair with the wave in it bristled up from his forehead and the cold blue eyes looked me over.

Glam responded in wounded tones, his mustache starting to bristle up.

Roscoe followed behind them, bristled up to nearly twice his size, clearly ready to do battle for his females.

Listened with such concentrated eagerness, that his very hair and shirt-collar stood bristling up to help him.

"They bristle up together like a clump of lances.

"But because we bristle up every time we face one another is no reason not to respect the man's seamanship.

His crest was bristled up with excitement, and he formed a perfect picture of beauty both in color and attitude.

I put my finger to my lips and indicated the dog, his hackles all bristled up.

The crumbling feeling as the steel disk struck just below the base of his skull made the hair bristle up along her spine even then.

When it was all over, Nugget bristled up to the dead creature, uttering cubgrowls.

The soldier, his bristles up from Bruenor's attitude, spat at the halfling's feet.

My dog Alpha bristled up, snarled and then something rushed about nearby trampling among the bushes.

Look how they bristle up, threaten on every side, clumsy and embarrassed in the enemy's territory, far, very far from themselves.

And bristled up at me.

Short, stubbly brown hair bristled up from his scalp, with a pair of thick, wrinkled ears protruding on either side.

He gets a perfectly fiendish expression in his light blue eyes, and all his hair bristles up like a striking cobra.