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

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

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'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