make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
