Show anger or indignation.
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.
6 The dog began to bristle up at once, but Torarin laid his hand upon his back.
7 He's beginning to bristle up even to you.
8 Come, come, Tom; don't bristle up so.
9 Why do you bristle up and stick up your noses as though you were the lords of creation.
10 You know the Americans are so deucedly thin-skinned-theyalways bristle up if you say anything against their institutions.
12 Challenger snorted ferociously as he looked at it, and his thick black hair seemed to bristle up in his wrath.
13 So, though he felt very small inside, Johnny made all his hair bristle up and tried to look very fierce.
14 But the sight of his back, as he turned away, caused Sir Cæsar's eyebrows to bristle up yet more pugnaciously.
15 How often does the dog start suddenly, and bristle up its hair, when nothing is in sight, or within hearing distance.
16 He was of a sickly colour, and his thin, sandy hair seemed to bristle up with the intensity of his emotion.
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