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make one's hair stand on end



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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

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

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

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

How often was I not in embarrassments enough to make one's hair stand on end, badly in debt.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von




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