“A tall captain with a flaming red bristle on his face shouted as he leaned over the man's body.”

“These ridges perfectly serve to guide any flexible body, like a fine bristle or hair, into the minute and rounded orifice of the nectary.”

“Each of the evenly-spaced tines is a bristle of the brush.”

“He wore a red beard, just changed from the down of youth to the bristliness of manhood, and as yet unshaven.”

“His bristliness and weaknesses were only the reverse side of his splendid qualities.”

“The vegetation of Lower California makes up in bristliness what it lacks in luxuriance.”