Your eye is on the dusky glistening hide and the stiff erect bristles in front; the shining tusks and foam-flecked chest are your goal, and the wild excitement culminates as you feel your keen steel go straight through muscle, bone, and sinew, and you know that another grisly monster has fallen.

Its back is covered with reddish bristles, like so many hooks.

And Squinty had a skin that was as pink, under his white, hairy bristles, as a baby's toes.

They crowded beneath the trees, with erect bristles, small, bloodshot eyes, gleaming white tusks, and frothing mouths, filling the air with their shrill cries, and striking the trunks such sturdy blows with their long, sharp tusks, that the trees fairly shook at each fresh assault.

ead"left it leaning in a negligent attitude against the warehouse-wall; now, lashed to the top of the crane at the jetty end, it pointed its soiled bristles towards the evening sky and defied capture.

" "I hope so," said Mr. Mancune; and his white, waxed moustache gave a feline upward bristle.

The head was bald on its crown; but around either ear was a mass of grizzled hair, pomatumed and combed into formal military bristles.

After him came a young shining man who rode on a boar with golden bristles and bloodied hoofs: this warrior carried a naked sword, and on his back, folded up like a cloth, was a ship to contain the gods and all living creatures.

It is strange to me, Jock Calder of West Inch, to feel that though now, in the very centre of the nineteenth century, I am but five-and-fifty years of age, and though it is only once in a week perhaps that my wife can pluck out a little grey bristle from over my ear, yet I have lived in a time when the thoughts and the ways of men were as different as though it were another planet from this.

220 A yet more dreadful scene; his glaring eye Redden with fury, like some angry boar Churning he foams; and on his back erect His pointed bristles rise; his tail incurved He drops, and with harsh broken bowlings rends The poison-tainted air, with rough hoarse voice Incessant bays; and snuff's the infectious breeze;

From their nostrils to the extremity of their tails, a line of rough bristles extends along the ridge of the back, insomuch that we concluded they were actually serpents, yet they are used as food by this nation.

Beneath him, from under the costly green coverlet of Oriental silk, half buried in the fluffy Valenciennes lace which edged the pillow, there protruded a round black bristle of close-cropped hair, with the profile of a curving nose and petulant lip outlined against the white background.

I suppose I need not tell you that the fruit is within a burr covered with sharp, stiff bristles which are not handled with impunity.

Sporangia clustered around the slender bristle, which is the prolongation of a vein, and surrounded by a vase-like, slightly two-lipped involucre.

The whole subject bristles with difficulties, not the least of which is that even to conceive of such a thing as prevision all our old ideas about time must be recast.

They had eaten bacon all their lives, often bacon with the bristles thick upon it, and to throw away money like this was positively wicked.

" "I hope so," said Mr. Mancune; and his white, waxed moustache gave a feline upward bristle.

A very large mouth, fringed with long bristles, useful as an insect trap.

We know, too, that he sought to soothe the fury and stroke down the angry bristles of John Dennis.

The yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age, tipped with panicles of fetid, greenish bloom.

In the stable-lots the larded porkers, with bristles as clean as frost, and flesh of pinky whiteness, are hunting with nervous nostrils for the lush purslain.

A few light-colored bristles were already sprouting on his chin and cheeks, and he wore town attire, with a silk hat and gloves, and a bright blue necktie.

And then when steam had had its day, impressing its materialism upon the world; making what should be hard, easy, and what should be easy, hardcame electricitya new science almost approaching a spiritual force, and, with a rush, the telephone that made the commonplace bristle with romance!

Dense bristle clouded the lower features of his face.