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make one's hair stand on end



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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

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

Such questions make one's hair stand on end.

From With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Lowry, Edward P.

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




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