bristly

Historical Examples

• The Major lifted his bristly eyebrows with a contemptuous twitch.

  Henry Dunbar

  M. E. Braddon

• His head was cropped and bristly, like as if he had a wig made of hair-brushes.

  Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete

  Albert Bigelow Paine

• A faint flush of shame tinged his bristly cheek at the thought.

  Dreamers of the Ghetto

  I. Zangwill

• His moustache was also cut short and bristly over a full, brutal mouth.

  The Prussian Officer

  D. H. Lawrence

• They were all legs and teeth and bristly fur, the meat almost inedible.

  Space Prison

  Tom Godwin