Above this the ridge weathers away to a thin knife-blade for a few hundred yards, and thence to the summit of the range it carries a bristly mane of chaparral.

Hence the term could be used for unkempt, disheveled, shaggy, hairy, coarse, bristly.

Her thoughts are ever with him, and they fly the mountain o'er When in the shaggy forest he hunts the bristly boar.

He thanked Beth very humbly for her kind attention, and laughed with Louise when she ridiculed his pudgy, round form and wondered if his bristly gray hair wouldn't make a good scrubbing brush.

He was several years older than the first arrival, his hair being slightly frosted, his eyebrows bristly, and his whiskers cut back from his cheeks.

"I reckon we done bit off more'n we can chaw," Harvey Gosse murmured, rubbing his bristly chin.

Mr. Jobson, fingering his bristly chin, stood: regarding the collection with a wan smile.

"Fancy Bobby with a dark lantern, a bristly beard, and a red handkerchief about his neck.

He was pallid, meagerly built, stoop-shouldered, bristly-haired, pock-marked, and stiff-gaited, with a face which would have been totally insignificant but for an obstinate chin and a pair of velvet-black, pathetically questioning eyes; and he was incurably an outlander.

Her face is quite white, and her hair so black and drawn off her forehead, and she has a bristly moustache.

The Griffon Basset is a hound with a hard bristly coat, and short, crooked legs.

He would allow me to take him up in my hands and stroke him, and yet not retire into his bristly shell.

Upon arriving at Buenos Ayres, a part of the harness broke, down went the cart, and out shot Hudson and his bristly companions backwards; but unfortunately falling upon one of the poor animals, he crushed him to death.

Near Aden his proprietors were captured by an officious and unsympathetic police (Moussa was sent to what he dreamed to be Heaven and later perceived to be a hospital) and while they went to jail, a number of bristly-haired Teutonic gentlemen at the Freidrichstrasse, Arab gentlemen at Muscat, and Afghan gentlemen at Cabul, were made to exercise the virtue of patience.

They are either smooth or variously hairy or bristly, and are always destitute of the regular scales with which fishes are generally invested.

Feathers on top of the head bristly.

The third man, a grizzled and bristly old warrior with a limp, broke in with a roar.

It was only a brief glancefor Mr. Weiss, perhaps embarrassed by my keen regard of him, almost immediately withdrew into the shadowand my attention seemed principally to be occupied by the odd contrast between the pallor of his face and the redness of his nose and by the peculiar stiff, bristly character of his eyebrows.

Opposite sits another French gentleman, with beard and bristly hair.

Leon.S. 4 0 BRISTLY HELMINTHIA H.B. 4 5 ALPINE BORKHAUSIA

" The female surgeon fastened a poultice upon the tattered cartilage by passing a bandage around the skipper's sandy and bristly head.

One species of Barley-grass, which grows very commonly in our sea-marshes, the Hordeum maritimum, is apt to render cattle diseased in the mouth, from chewing the seeds, which are armed with a strong bristly awn not dissimilar to the spike of this grass.

35 - stolonifera Creeping ditto l. 36 - subulata Awl-leaved ditto l. 37 - setacea Bristly ditto l. 38 Convulvulus lineatus Dwarf Bindweed l. 39 Campanulla pulla Dark-flowered Bell-flower b.l.

A bristly pig carrying a bell about his neck, ran wildly up and down the grassy slope in search of chestnuts.

To make his hair into anything but elf locks, or to obliterate the bristly tuft that made him like Riquet, was impossible, illness had made him additionally lean and sallow, and his keen eyes, under their black contracted brows and dark lashes, showed all the more the curious variation in their tints, and with an obliquity that varied according to the state of the nerves.