Citations:bristle

English citations of bristle

• 1940, Brooms, Brushes & Mops, volumes 43-44, page 16:

  THE first rug cleaning brushes bristled with nylon have been installed […] rebristled at least three times a year. A rug cleaning machine uses two […]

• 1941, Association of School Business Officials of the United States and Canada, Proceedings:

  ... nylon is employed most advantageously in bristling brushes of all kinds; it even is extruded over wire as an insulator. With nylon, as with so many chemical products, the demand incessantly exceeds the supply.

• 1948 07, Rayon Textile Monthly:

  [It is used] in bristling brushes, and as plastics in the form of powders from which finished articles are molded by other manufacturers. Outstanding characteristics of nylon as a plastic are strength and toughness, and resistance to abrasion […]

• 1949, Western City Magazine, volume 25, page 13:

  […] re-bristle one of your present rotary street sweepers. THEN YOU BE THE JUDGE. / COMPETITIVE BIDS We are ready to submit bids for your next purchase of bristling material. We will be glad to submit competitive bids upon receipt of […]

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• circa 1848, John Ralls, letter, quoted in Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress (1845-1849 : Polk), page 128:

  […] the outlines of walls and houses were bristled with musketry, which continued to the last to pour in the direction of our party, added to which were hand grenades, which the enemy were constantly throwing into our midst. Several of the first exploded without ...

• 1831, Oliver Goldsmith, The History of England, page 472:

  […] were bristled with artillery; and his barbarian subjects fought with desperation. Happily their defence was less able than courageous; and, after an uninterrupted fire of six hours, and a dreadful carnage, the skill and cool […]