make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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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
It's enough to make one's hair stand on end.
From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz
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 thing to make one's hair stand on end!
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
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
