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Still retreat was impossible; for the heave of the sea was too powerful, and the wind too heavy, to leave us any hope of long keeping the Walrus from drifting down upon the ragged peaks that bristled in icy glory to leeward.
"I don't agree with you at all," she bristled. "Men have a ridiculous way of lumping all women together and then generalising about them." "Let's discuss the question," he said gaily. "May I?" And scarcely waiting for her permission, he deliberately moved aside her things and seated himself opposite her. "But you were busy writing," she protested.
'I do not see it, because I will not see it, she said, and she found a personal cooling and consolement in the phrase. We have this power of resisting invasion of the poetic by the commonplace, the spirit by the blood, if we please, though you men may not think that we have! Her alarmed sensibilities bristled and made head against him as an enemy.
Instinct taught the creature this: it crawled carefully out on the bough, growling savagely as it came. Gerard looked wildly down. He was forty feet from the ground. Death below. Death moving slow but sure on him in a still more horrible form. His hair bristled. The sweat poured from him. He sat helpless, fascinated, tongue-tied.
An' consarn my soul!" here Posey bristled up with as much excited interest in voice and manner as if he were at that moment peering down into the depths of the lake "What do you s'pose he was a-doin' down there?"
Here bristled aloft black and red cliffs, without any grass, tree, or bird's voice. For it was a valley which all animals avoided, even the beasts of prey, except that a species of ugly, thick, green serpent came here to die when they became old. Therefore the shepherds called this valley: "Serpent-death."
His dark hair bristled stiffly, his short mustache wanted a lot of combing, a russet stubble covered chin and neck; but the broad forehead and blue eyes gave a suggestion of power and intelligence to an aspect that might otherwise have seemed simply forbidding. "Good marnin', sir." One of the helpers at the Roebuck stables had come slouching past. "Good mornin', Samuel."
James' Town, an inconsiderable village, was before him, enchased, as it were in a valley, amid arid and scarped rocks of immense height; every platform, every opening, every gorge, was bristled with cannon. Las Cases, who stood by him, could not perceive the slightest alteration of his countenance.
"Would you be willing to risk ten dollars more on a chance to get it back?" asked the doctor. "Show me the man who can tell me how to do it, and watch me," bristled the victim. "I know that man, and I know his scheme," said the doctor, "and I've got one that will beat it."
In ordinary talk, his language was colorless and unwieldy, and absolutely bristled with Gallicisms. But the moment that the conversation turned upon serious topics, Ivan Petrovich immediately began to give utterance to such expressions as "to render manifest abnormal symptoms of enthusiasm," or "this is extravagantly inconsistent with the essential nature of circumstances," and so forth.
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