make one's blood run cold
Example Sentences
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It seems to make one's blood run cold.
From The Master Builder by Gosse, Edmund
At the end of each stanza, the air was rent by a burst of war whoops that were calculated to make one's blood run cold.
From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Boyton, Paul
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.
It's 'nough to make one's blood run cold to see the highty-tighty airs that woman puts on.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.
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
