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  • His hair, a shockingly vibrant blue, was done in tasteful spikes that appeared styled rather than horripilated.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • His hair, a shockingly vibrant blue, was done in tasteful spikes that appeared styled rather than horripilated.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • And all the citizens and the subjects from the country horripilated in joy.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • And all the citizens and the subjects from the country horripilated in joy.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Located on the site of a former beach that last welcomed horripilated bathers in the 1930s, the lakeside sandspot is part of an £8 million project to revamp the rather rundown Bishop's Park and adjacent Fulham Palace.

    Londonist 2009

  • - of flesh made to creep by the utterance of such words as poets utter - flesh moved by an Idea, flesh horripilated by a Thought!

    Book 6: Tales Out of the East eddvick 2008

  • The phrase could have come from "to talk cold turkey" and was transferred to drug withdrawal because the underlying image of a horripilated naked turkey was memorable.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1 1992

  • -- _of flesh made to creep by the utterance of such words as poets utter, -- flesh moved by an Idea, flesh horripilated by a Thought!

    Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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