bristling

Example Sentences

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Some problems, like the brittling of bone, may have been overcome already.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2014

The glass test tube went brittling out of Sagner's fingers.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

They blew a mort upon the bent; they sembled on sidis shear, To the quarry then the Percy went, to see the brittling of the deer.

From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry

"Leave off the brittling of the deer," he said, "and to your bows look ye take good heed, For never sith ye were of your mothers born had ye never so mickle need."

From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry