Show anger or indignation.
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Examples for "bridle at "
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.
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 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?
6 Now I must say I began to bristle at being spoken to like that.
7 They bristle at the very mention of the issue.
8 But authorities bristle at any suggestion of tax dodging.
9 But climbers and wearable-computing experts bristle at a computer that makes life-and-death decisions for them.
10 I left them standing all alone, with nothing but the empty night to bristle at .
11 They also bristle at the idea of having to follow Brussels' lead on tariffs after Brexit.
12 The industrial regions in northern Italy would not be the only ones to bristle at that.
13 He'd wondered if she would bristle at that.
14 At this point it would be only, er, human to bristle at the temerity of these geeks.
15 There are, to be sure, a few men on our council who bristle at a woman's authority.
16 Miriam, to my dismay, understood the insult I had intended, but she did not bristle at it.
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