

With a snarl, Joe seated himself, brushing off placations from the men on either side of him.

Hawk laughed, braying out a long snarling laugh through yellow teeth, gray moustaches and a bronchitic throat. Instead of commiserating with the economic plight of the British, the Canadians blustered and snarled, hurling threats of retaliation against any tariff adjustments the United Kingdom might have to make in its EEC negotiations. The batture was a solid granny-knot of brush, saplings, weeds, and snags-a nearly-impenetrable snarl of desiccated roots and branches, occupied by birds, turtles, snakes of every variety, alligators, and upon occasion runaway slaves. They had not been on the path long when he stopped in his tracks, wrinkling his nose and baring his teeth in a snarl. Muradin was only a pace or two ahead, staring straight in front of him, teeth bared, snarling silently. Trolloc bared goat teeth at him in a snarl, ears twitching beside its horns. She could feel the hot blood nearby, and the demon that lived in her core snarled with anticipation and impatience. The campaign that began so placidly with six appealing serious candidates will likely degenerate into a snarling sea of invective featuring offscreen announcers with ominous voices, grainy photographs and blown-up, red-circled, out-of-context newspaper clips.
