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
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
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
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.
