make one's hair stand on end

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

I’m sure I don’t remember giving my mother any particular trouble when I was Matilda’s age, but the stories I’ve heard to-day are enough to make one’s hair stand on end.

From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

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