porcupine

He is the author of Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, and African Psycho, among others.

My heart was racing, my hands felt like they were covered with porcupine quills.

One day, the porcupine has had enough, and turns to writing a memoir.

Mabanckou pairs the porcupine with a Congolese boy, who attacks and kills neighbors and strangers with little provocation.

The Kutchin make pretty pipe-stems out of goose-quills wound about with porcupine-quills.

Mr. Van Britt blew his cheeks out until the stubby, cropped mustache bristled like porcupine quills.

From the Jim Crow a drowsy porcupine trundled away bristling.

The porcupine, meanwhile, had found something that interested him.

Only the porcupine was quite undaunted by the strange sounds.