hair-raiser

And now I'll tell you a hair-raiser myself, though I'm like a jackass on a slippery pavement compared to him.

Satyricon 2007

He also scored hits with the gospel-fueled hair-raiser "Will It Go Round In Circles" and the jaunty "Nothing from Nothing" (listen carefully and you'll hear a banjo burbling under that horn section).

Goodbye, Billy 2007

The original sci-fi hair-raiser, published over 100 years ago.

By The Numbers: Top-Grossing Film AdaptationsBy The Numbers: Top-Grossing Film Adaptations Saabira Chaudhuri 2006

"Oh, I guess it isn't a hair-raiser," said Marion easily.

Betty Wales, Sophomore Margaret Warde

And now I'll tell you a hair-raiser myself, though I'm like a jackass on a slippery pavement compared to him.

The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

And now I'll tell you a hair-raiser myself, though I'm like a jackass on a slippery pavement compared to him.

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

"That was a regular hair-raiser, as the fellow said when he finished the blood-and-thunder story."

Frank Merriwell's Races Burt L. Standish 1905

And he was a hair-raiser of quality ... everything about him.

Red Fleece Will Levington Comfort 1905

Tom laughingly admitted that it was a "hair-raiser" and John continued:

Polly and Eleanor Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

That panther story was a veritable hair-raiser; and we were never tired of hearing the old man tell it.

A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887