make one's hair stand on end
Example Sentences
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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!
From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb
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
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
A thing to make one's hair stand on end!
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
