make one's blood run cold
Example Sentences
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I had a long talk to-day with a trustworthy man from there, and his story was enough to make one's blood run cold.
From A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Gibson, Hugh
Why, man, those cries make one’s blood run cold to listen to them!
From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Hodgson, Edward S.
The thought was enough to make one’s blood run cold.
From Within the Tides by Conrad, Joseph
Up they went towards the Æmilian villa with clamour and threats enough to make one’s blood run cold, and they must be far on their way to Bordigala Gergovia by this time.”
From More Bywords by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
From just below rose such a squeaking and a scraping as would make one's blood run cold.
From Mary's Rainbow by Feehan, Mary Edward
