Which preposition to use with bristles

with Occurrences 171%

That other island, away to the right, with its great boulders and bare rocks rising straight up out of the water, is a fortification, a stronghold surrounded by a wall of solid masonry, and bristling with cannon.

of Occurrences 23%

Then we stripped the mask with its bristle of long whiskers, took the gall, and dragged the carcass into the surf where it was devoured by fish.

on Occurrences 16%

" Bristles on the chin, with little or none on the cheeks, is the inference.

in Occurrences 7%

" It was from this father who used to "stick" pale-blue flowers in his wife's belt, and whose love of delicate fabrics and tints made him courageous enough to lead her draped in Canton crape into the unpainted Cape Cod meeting-house, where her fellow-women bristled in homespun, that Mercy inherited all the artistic side of her nature.

at Occurrences 6%

Her own gray spine stiffened when she saw the tawny hair along Kazan's back bristle at some dream vision.

like Occurrences 5%

Slowly they circled about each other, their white fangs bare, their yellowish backs bristling like brushes.

from Occurrences 5%

"The palm makes an excellent hat-rack," said Scott, slinging his revolver and his water-bottle over the little upward-pointing pegs which bristle from the trunk.

towards Occurrences 4%

we swaggerers, That live by oaths and big-mouth'd menaces, Are now reputed for the tallest men: He that hath now a black moustachio, Reaching from ear to ear, or turning up, Puncto reverso, bristling towards the eye; He that can hang two handsome tools at his side, Go in disguis'd attire, wear iron enough, Is held a tall man and a soldier.

for Occurrences 3%

These two stood with their heads down and all their feathers bristling for a moment; then they dashed at each other, and struck fiercely with their spurs, as our domestic cocks do, but neither fell, and the fight was continued for about five minutes without apparent advantage on either side.

into Occurrences 2%

The rushes and the willow wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior armed for strife.

against Occurrences 2%

"Let Great Britain fail and be beaten down, and all the navies of Europe will be bristling against the United States."

around Occurrences 2%

A rustling like dried leaves came from among the rocks and the hair rose bristling around the neck of the wolflike dog.

about Occurrences 2%

Captain Selover's hairy face bristled about the mouth.

to Occurrences 2%

I had always looked upon Belgium as being outside the pale of possible warfare, yet according to this article it seems to be bristling to the teeth with armaments.

off Occurrences 1%

But finding nothing better to his purpose, he cut some bristles off his hearth-broom, and enclosed them in a letter to his country enthusiast, who received them with due reverence.

before Occurrences 1%

Talks at Mr. G., who begins visibly to bristle before our very eyes as he sits attentive on Front Bench.

out Occurrences 1%

It is a bristle out of a hog's back.

outside Occurrences 1%

A whole village will turn out to compass the destruction of some wretched sow that may have shewn her bristles outside the jungle in the daytime.

over Occurrences 1%

I could not look at their weather-stained faces, with the great moustaches which bristled over their chin-straps, without feeling a glow of confidence, and, between ourselves, I have no doubt that that was exactly how they felt when they saw their young Colonel on his great black war-horse riding at their head.

above Occurrences 1%

His face was wet with the mist, and he had apparently oft wiped it with his hand or sleeve, for great streaks of dirt marked his cheeks and forehead, giving him a curious satanic expression, whilst his short lank hair obviously roughed up by impatient fingers, bristled above his square-built head like the coat of a shaggy dog.

after Occurrences 1%

She wore most frequently, at this epoch, black velvet that suppled about her well-asserted contours; and the very trail of her skirt was unlike another woman's, for it coiled and bristled after her with a life and motion of its own, like a serpent.

under Occurrences 1%

But do not forget the little guns, bristling under the big guns like needles from a cushion, which would keep off the torpedo assassins; or the light cruisers, or the colliers, or the destroyers, or the 2,300 trawlers and mine-layers, and what not, all under his direction.

down Occurrences 1%

Pass a bristle down it.

Which preposition to use with  bristles