porpentine

When we return, will a tale unfold whose lightest word will harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make they two eyes like stars start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Seven soliloquies 2009

When we return, will a tale unfold whose lightest word will harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make they two eyes like stars start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Lance Mannion: 2009

Because "done" is a misnomer around here, the ever-fabulous team of taraoshea (graphic design) and porpentine (back-end code) are hard at work preparing a redesign for SeananMcGuire.com, aka, "my website."

seanan_mcguire: Website updates in the works. seanan_mcguire 2009

Aye aksd teh Pipchunk, adn hym haz ah fren, teh heggiipiggul, huz gotz ah cuzin en Jermanii, diz fien, beeg, porpentine….adn ennywai, teh porpentine sez dat hym gnu ah gnome, wut maeks teh majekal birfdai baux prezzies,……

Adobe called - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Then armed with a sword, gun, battledore, or an armful of bricks to throw, and uttering sadistic cries, Adam would pursue him round and round the room, driving him from refuge to refuge, until almost beside himself with rage and terror, he crouched junglelike with ears flattened back and porpentine hair.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

He wanted something along the lines of "Thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular quill to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine" but didn't think he could carry it off and didn't like the hedgehog reference.

So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984

Especially is she noted for the introduction of certain novelties in the business, such as combing Hortensio's noddle with a three-legged stool, a proceeding well calculated to make each particular hair stand on end "like quills upon the fretful porpentine."

Was Shakespeare a Barber? The Secret of the Bard's Private Life Revealed at Last 1914

Quills, stops of various, 248. upon the porcupine, 131. upon the porpentine, 131.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

If you installed a genuine Heritage Belmonte Close Coupled WC and Landscape Cistern (£98), for example, would you stick it all over with sucker-ended toy arrows, like the fretful porpentine, just because the glazed earthenware surface is such a welcome host?

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

You’ve got more friends than quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Flowering Wilderness 2004