make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
