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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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- 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
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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.
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-- _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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