make one's hair stand on end

Example Sentences

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It seemed as if the ship must break into a thousand pieces, a thing most terrible to see and to hear, and fit to make one's hair stand on end.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Leigh, Dora

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

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

And something did happen, though not of a character to make one's hair stand on end.

From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Jókai, Mór

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