They drew back into a wider circle, squatting alertly on their haunches and licking their chops, the hair on every neck bristling and erect.

Carol could feel the hair on the back of her neck bristling erect.

There they were encountered by the three-headed dog, Cerberus, with his necks bristling with snakes.

Gordon felt the hair on his neck bristling as the Ethne rushed now into the zone of battle itself.

He looked around the vault uneasily, the hairs on the back of his neck bristling.

His upper lip curled back in an open snarl; he felt the hair on the back of his neck bristling and felt his tailbone tighten-if he still had a tail, it would be straight out behind him!

It was as she was speaking that Singer suddenly stood and moved to Julie's side, the hair on the back of his neck bristling.

He paused, abruptly alert, fully awake, the hairs on his neck bristling.

He whirled back to her, the short hairs on his neck bristling.

Purists will insist that the neck be shaved clean with a razor, defining an unruly beard not by long jaw-line whiskers but by a neck bristling with stray hairs.