make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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It seemed as if the ship must break into a thousand pieces, a thing most terrible to see and to hear, and fit to make one's hair stand on end.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Leigh, Dora
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
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
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.
