Example Sentences

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As she came back into the room she heard the word "debentures," and that single word changed her mood instantly from bland feminine toleration to porcupinish defensiveness.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

I had now for the first time in my life a distinct sense of that sort of porcupinish motion over the whole scalp which is so frequently described by the Latin poets. 

From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Morley, Henry

I never could account for people, who had only heard of me, knowing me upon first sight, unless it was because of my long black beard and porcupinish hair.

From Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings by Hastings, Z. S.

Beyond doubt he was occasionally gruff, he was churlish, he was porcupinish.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

Then the insertion of a row of long white wooden skewers gives one a peculiarly porcupinish look; or a row of little brass danglers hints of wealth.

From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward