make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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Today the mox progeniem daturos vitiosiorem would make one's hair stand on end.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William
And now, my Hannah'li, I tell you once and for all, it is enough to make one's hair stand on end, and hardly to be believed!
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
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
A thing to make one's hair stand on end!
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
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
