Show anger or indignation.
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Examples for "bristle at "
Examples for "bristle at "
1 And it's not just politicians that might bristle at Ma's ambition.
2 Now the boy sat rubbing the bristle at the crown of his head.
3 As events progress, her new partner begins to bristle at some of her habits.
4 Oil and gas firms bristle at being lumped into the debate alongside carbon-intensive coal.
5 Why did some of Mueller's team reportedly bristle at Barr's characterization of their work?
1 Wilkins, the groom, led the animal by the bridle up and down before the library window.
2 They will bridle up , and answer that for their parts they never saw a single one.
3 You have punished me so rudely for my presumption, and will not even permit my heart to bridle up and give utterance to its wrath.
4 But Lars Falkenberg bridles up at once and puts on airs, looking Nils up and down with contempt.
5 Suddenly he ordered his followers to dismount and lead their horses by their bridles up to the top of the mountain.
1 It'll make the back of your neck bristle up like a porcupine.
2 At the mention of the French teacher's name Professor Garlach seemed to bristle up .
3 They bristle up together like a clump of lances.
4 This cracker made Gringoire's skin bristle up all over.
5 This is a trouble-some charge, forever to bristle up in the path-way of a silver standard.
1 A good saddle and bridle at that time would fetch twenty pounds readily.
2 The Scot dropped the bridle at last; dropped it to pluck forth the weapon.
3 Congress may bridle at the open spigot for Pakistan as the counterterrorism relationship deteriorates.
4 To his surprise Erius did not bridle at the suggestion.
5 He was still on the bridle at the last fence.
6 No wonder modern actors bridle at a term that seems mired in Britain's class system.
7 I asked, inclined to bridle at his tone.
8 McAleese was right to bridle at the labelling of his side as "tenacious" after that match.
9 We all bridle at control.
10 Bankers bridle at the thought.
12 Solo didn't bridle at the "son."
13 Other senior business figures believe that Europeans are hardwired to bridle at high pay, even if there were an irrefutable commercial justification.
14 She lifted her bridle at last without speaking a word and walked her animal forward through the sparse grass and the stones.
15 The daughter of 2006 Oaks heroine Alexandrova, Somehow was off the bridle at an early stage and not handling the unique contours.
16 Greene also turned in on this judgment his horse, saddle, and bridle at a hundred and twenty-five dollars; and Lincoln afterwards repaid him.
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