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Meanings of fretful porcupine in inglés

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Usage of fretful porcupine in inglés
1
And do not despise the fretful porcupine; he is better than he looks.
Woodcraft
2
Heckling poor Robin and getting your hair on end like a fretful porcupine.
Mary Gray
3
I was only- akindof fretful porcupine-standingup for my side.
Delia Blanchflower
4
You can't frolic with your hair on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 / Little J...
5
Then the hair along his backbone stood up like the quills upon the fretful porcupine, and he growled.
Jess
6
My hair stood on end like the quills of the fretful porcupine; I could not imagine what on earth it was.
"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
7
The mere suggestion freezes my young blood and makes each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
Jennie Baxter, Journalist
8
And in the next story you shall hear of an exciting adventure which the two little rabbits had with a fretful porcupine.
Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog
9
Every pore poured forth perspiration, and my hair seemed to stand on end like quills upon the back of the fretful porcupine.
The Gentleman from Everywhere
10
Her head, adorned with more than the usual quota of toothpicks, brought the quills upon the fretful porcupine forcibly to one's mind.
The Purple Heights
11
If I did"-shepointed to their joint reflection in the opposite mirror-"weshould have a fretful porcupine here in no time."
With the Procession
12
It was nearly all cut off, when we were in Cape Coast, and one doesn't want to go out looking like a fretful porcupine.
Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
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