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make one's hair stand on end

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The dismal reports from mobilized soldiers “make one’s hair stand on end,” state television anchor Vladimir Solovyov declared Thursday.

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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.

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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!

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A thing to make one's hair stand on end!

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It's enough to make one's hair stand on end.

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