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1  Buck never came near Spitz without snarling and bristling menacingly.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
2  He sprang back, bristling and snarling, fearful of the unseen and unknown.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
3  They closed in upon her, snarling and yelping, and she was buried, screaming with agony, beneath the bristling mass of bodies.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
4  One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting, his mane bristling in recurrent waves.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
5  She announced her condition by a long, heartbreaking wolf howl that sent every dog bristling with fear, then sprang straight for Buck.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
6  Only Spitz quivered and bristled as he staggered back and forth, snarling with horrible menace, as though to frighten off impending death.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
7  Three miles away he came upon a fresh trail that sent his neck hair rippling and bristling, It led straight toward camp and John Thornton.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
8  And Buck was truly a red-eyed devil, as he drew himself together for the spring, hair bristling, mouth foaming, a mad glitter in his blood-shot eyes.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I. Into the Primitive
9  Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big Colt's revolver and a hunting-knife strapped about him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
10  There were fierce fighters among them, but three battles with the fiercest brought Buck to mastery, so that when he bristled and showed his teeth they got out of his way.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
11  As he spoke he fearlessly patted the head he had so mercilessly pounded, and though Buck's hair involuntarily bristled at touch of the hand, he endured it without protest.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I. Into the Primitive
12  Down the neck and across the shoulders, his mane, in repose as it was, half bristled and seemed to lift with every movement, as though excess of vigor made each particular hair alive and active.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
13  The wolf whirled about, pivoting on his hind legs after the fashion of Joe and of all cornered husky dogs, snarling and bristling, clipping his teeth together in a continuous and rapid succession of snaps.
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call