bridling

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Bridling with indignation, he added: “It was many of the people in the room. They called me racist and other words because I did that, because I went so early.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2020

Bridling at what they considered an assault on academic freedom, some 15 college presidents last month petitioned for a third hearing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bridling and wagging her white head she admitted her pampered state.

From Half Portions by Ferber, Edna

Bridling softly, she was turning away, when the young King threw up his hands in good-humored surrender.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)

Bridling and saddling him, Stephen mounted and rode into the street at a canter.

From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus