make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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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.
A hubbub uprose on all sides enough to make one's hair stand on end.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by O'Rell, Max
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
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
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
