That march was not a simple matter, for a country had to be traversed in which the towns and castles still bristled with English garrisons, or with doubtful allies.
The English had taken up a place of vantage on the brow of a hill; their archers as usual were placed in the front line, and before them bristled a stockade.
Then burst the wrathful cry, Feet found the earth, and ready hands the sword, And angry knighthood bristled round its lord.
With his right hand he seized a Scotch cap from a head that bristled with a stubble of red hair.
His hair, black and coarse and closely clipped, bristled almost low enough on his narrow forehead to meet his heavy brows.
The little man fairly bristledwith indignation at this remark.
The bunched blades of the yuccas bristled steel-stiff, and as far as you could see it was a gray waste of mounds and ridges sharp and blunt, up to the forbidding boundary walls of the Tortilita one way and the Santa Catalina the other.
The big bird curved his neck, bristled his feathers, and hissed.
Boltrope, deliberately counting the tiers of guns that bristled along the sides of the enemy; "a three- decker!
His hair bristled up on his head like the coat of a wild animal enraged.
His inflamed eyes seemed to glare upon her, his rough grey hair bristled on his head, a hot redness spread across his face beneath his fiery eyes, which seemed to scorch the cheek with angry flames.
His eyes grew red with injected blood, and his hair bristled on his head.
The wiry hairs of the Chief Medical Officer's red moustache bristled like a cat's.
This reflexion indeed you would have made only after some delay; for it must be allowed that they bristled with none of those modern signs that carry out the tradition of the old indigenous war-paint and feathers.
There was a high wall with a double gate in the middle and flanked by a couple of ancient massive posts; the big rusty grille bristled with old-fashioned iron-work.
On the left, moreover, was a metal urn, serving as a receptacle for gratuities; whilst a similar one on the right bristled with a fan-like arrangement of coffee spoons.
Sometimes they bristledand glowered with anger amidst their crumpled leaves; at other times they spoke only of love and peacefulness as they smiled in their prim collars.
It was evident that the Captain did not relish the explanation, for he bristled with dangerous hostility as he took a step forward.
The sight of the cringing Innkeeper seemed to have a temporary effect upon the pugilist, but he quickly recovered and bristled defiantly.
He urged the dog, whobristled and growled and showed his teeth.
The beast bristledin demoniac wrath, spat with malignant venom, and shot out its claws.
As he was entering the arena, he shied off to the side more stiff-leggedly than ever, bristled all along his neck and back, and growled deep and low in his throat.
In short, the message or feel had not been a good message or feel, and Michael had bristled and stiffened without thinking, but by mere knowing, which is what men call "intuition.
And Michael, a man-dog and a lion-dog in all the stuff of him, bristled at the instant of intrusion, but made no outcry.
One tightened the lead ahead, the other to the rear, and Michael snarled and bristled his impotent wrath.
That first meeting in the Barbary Coast cabaret, Michael had bristled at him, and stiffened belligerently, when he laid his hand on Michael's head.
He had also bristled up, and we thought that we were to see a big fight.
And well it might, for there on each side of me, reared back and hair all bristled up, was a half-grown grizzly bear!
The gates were shut, and the walls bristled with spears.
As they arrived upon the spot, however, and saw the thick hedge of spears which bristled round the little body of Saxons, the first comers checked their speed and waited till Haffa himself came up, accompanied by his principal warriors.
The 'bristled boar' (93) is symbolical of Richard III.
Bukawai took a step toward the creature, which bristled with rage at his approach.
Teeka, seeing him coming, and thinking that he was after her or her balu, bristled and prepared to fight.
He had no love for Numa, the lion, yet he bristled with rage when the blacks inflicted upon his enemy such indignities and cruelties as only the mind of the one creature molded in the image of God can conceive.
She counted on, industriously, and soon poor Billy's head bristled with queer-looking little bunches on one side.
Suddenly the fur bristled all along the latter's back, and he gave a little churring growl.
As he rushed at them, his hair bristled until he seemed to swell to double his size.
When a bristled dog fox barred his path, Old Joe did not swerve at all.
Just in front of him, herbristled fur making her appear twice her usual size, was the same mate whose den tree he'd sought out when he left the great sycamore in February.
His mustachios bristled as fiercely as of old, his skin was clear and healthy, and his dark brown hair showed ashen at the temples.
But the hair that had been brown and flecked with grey was black; the reddish mustachios that had bristled like a mountain cat's were black, too, and they hung limp and hid from sight the fine lines of his mouth.
He closed his eyes so as not to behold the horrible gaze of Syphilis which penetrated through the wall, which even pierced his closed lids, which he felt gliding over his moist spine, over his body whose hair bristled in pools of cold sweat.
His hair and beard, untended since his illness by the domestic, added to the horror of the sunken face and staring eyes burning with feverish intensity in this skeleton head that bristled with hair.
The bristled baptist Boar, impure as he, But whitened with the foam of sanctity, With fat pollutions filled the sacred place, And mountains levelled in his furious race; So first rebellion founded was in grace.
The Sow bristled up in terror, but Isegrim cried out, "Don't be frightened, Gruntelind!
But when the house-cat followed the cow-herd woman out of the house, where she had gone to carry some milk, the dog bristled up and growled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bristled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bristling; bristly; hairy; hirsute; stubbled; studded
