Your youth, and the beauty that charms Venus, will not touch the hearts of lions and bristly boars.
They were conceived to be covered with bristly hair, their heads decorated with short, sprouting horns, and their feet like goats' feet.
Immediately in advance of himself and the earl, the captain had placed half a dozen men with pikes, the bristly points of which served to protect, in some measure, their position by turning to one side the current of boarders.
There was a dry and mirthless laugh, showing teeth, white or discoloured, in haggard and bristly faces.
I gather now what your bad news is," says Bingo, who has been dejectedly rubbing his finger along the bristly edges of his sandy moustache, for a minute past.
He put up his long, thin hand to stroke his bristly chin.
He resorted to his favourite trick--he stroked his bristly chin, as if the action assisted him in the search for an appropriate answer.
It certainly bears some resemblance to a pig about the snout and cheeks; and that, with its bristly hair and burrowing habits, has no doubt given rise to the mistaken name.
The high, rather receding forehead was furrowed with three perpendicular lines denoting mental fatigue, and it ended in a shock of bristly dark-brown hair standing erect.
He stood up and soothed his friend, who sank back again on the sofa-cushions, and caressed comically his bristly hair.
In almost any summer shoot, most of the gradations may be seen between the ordinary leaves, with sharp bristly teeth, and leaves which are reduced to a branching spine or thorn.
Nostrils basal, lateral, roundish, covered by bristly feathers, which are directed forwards.
A thousand steely points on every scale Form the bright terrors of his bristly male.
It appears that your attitude is the reverse of friendly, signore," was the antagonistic reply of the man with the bristly hair, who looked much more French than Italian.
I shouldn't be allowed to keep them," he said ruefully, trying to smooth his bristly hair.
His bristly hair began to turn a dull grey in these troublesome days.
Nostrils basal, oval, pointed in front and partly covered by reflected bristly feathers.
The soprano answered: Tell me, Hansel in the valley, While the merry cuckoos crow, Is thy bristly beard as bristly As it was a year ago?
The larvae have a glossy and bristly appearance, and are generally gregarious in their habits.
It is black, with whitish lines along the sides; and is provided with a number of bristly spines.
In colour the caterpillar is velvety black, dotted with white, and its body is covered with short bristly spines.
A little before sundown, as punctually as clockwork, a big bristly wild boar, with all his family following, trots through the city gate, churning the foam on his tusks.
Its cheeks are black, with long, bristly moustaches, like those of a cat; while its head resembles that of the hare or rabbit.
They were about the size of small hogs--very much of the same build--and covered with a thin sandy bristly hair, just like some hogs are.
Mat slowly read the second paragraph of this letter twice over, abstractedly twisting about his great bristly whiskers between his finger and thumb.
It happens that annuals have leaves with rounded lobes, while biennials have leaves with lobes that end in angles and bristly tips.
The red oak leaf is large, smooth, rather thin, its oval broken by triangular sinuses and forward-aiming lobes, that end inbristly points.
The pin oak earns its name by the sharp, short, spur-like twigs that cluster on the branches, crowding each other to death and then persisting to give the tree a bristly appearance.
Its leathery, dark green leaves are divided by curving sinuses into squarish lobes, each ending in one or more bristly tips.
Sometimes an old serving-man, with long gray hair and a bristly beard, with a comforter round his neck and a pair of yellow spectacles on his nose, brings you or fetches you.
Old Simeon had listened without speaking, with his head still half wrapped up, showing only his bristly gray beard and his eyes hidden behind their yellow spectacles.
