bristle-covered

Updated: June 2, 2025

A petty egg-laying, bristle-covered beast it was, with no more of the rudiments of a soul than bare hunger, weak lust and fear.... People always seem to regard that as a curious fact of no practical importance. It isn't: it's a vital fact of the utmost practical importance. That is what you are made of.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Secret Places of the Heart