make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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A thing to make one's hair stand on end!
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
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
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
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
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
