The forest suddenly bristled with living bushes, and bushes became bears, and the bears snapped at his heels until he fled among the trees.

All through the city, stovepipes suddenly bristled through exterior walls and through windows.

His black beard suddenly bristled.

The hairs on the back of her neck suddenly bristled.

My words had got under his skin and he was suddenly bristling.

The hairs on the back of her neck were suddenly bristling, and for a few seconds she forgot to breathe.

But instead the tail suddenly bristled and the shoulders hunched as if to put a brake upon muscles already tensed.

He confronts what looks like a crowd of Manhattanites suddenly bristling with guns.

The fair girl bristled suddenly.

To the north a dunetop suddenly bristled with hedgehogs brandishing warclubs.