A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
Quotes about hackles (3 Quotes)
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.
However, as the so-called Information Superhighway grew in all directions, so did concern over traffic control. Lawmakers in Congress, while creating the new telecommunications bill, demanded curbs on so-called cyberporn, which they said flows freely on the Internet. Their proposed restrictions raised the hackles of some in the cyber community. By saying that there are certain materials that are lewd and lascivious and are somehow inappropriate, you're putting a damper on the entire free-flow of information, ... Who is to define what is lewd, what is lascivious or just politically unpopular