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
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
It's enough to make one's hair stand on end.
From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 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
There are dealers in wigs and essences who are enough to make one's hair stand on end; they care only to sell you bottles.
From Unconscious Comedians by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
