make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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We gave nothing, and they commented upon us with a gravity of moral reprobation quite fit to make one's hair stand on end, even with New England versus beggar behind one.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
It is enough to make one’s hair stand on end, ‘like quills upon the fretted porcupine.’
From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee
A hubbub uprose on all sides enough to make one's hair stand on end.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by O'Rell, Max
The others were telling stories, calculated to make one's hair stand on end, about signs and warnings, and their horrible fulfillment.
From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Fraser, Malcolm
And something did happen, though not of a character to make one's hair stand on end.
From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Jókai, Mór
