horripilating

That these true events fall way short of living up to the horripilating hurlyburly they inspired is the least of what I found wrong with this picture.

Knock, Knock, Who's Scared? Arbogast 2008

According to this somewhat fantastic story, one of the Orsini dukes, whose real name was Pier Francesco but who was known by the nickname Vicino, designed toward the end of the sixteenth century a garden of a sensationally eccentric kind, which exhibited a varied assortment of grotesque and horripilating figures, executed in the soft local tufa by a captive from the battle of Lepanto.

The Monsters of Bomarzo Wilson, Edmund 1972

He still waited, his passive body horripilating with a vast indignation at the thought of the injustice of it all, at the thought that he must lie there and let half-baked dagoes shower his unprotesting back with lead.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

Here the dead are pictured as eternally horripilating at death!

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

(And now I'm horripilating again, just writing about the previous horripilations!)

Disambiguation Ed Park 2010

There is something very New York about the cultivated, yet horripilating glimpse Sacks gives of his own mortality.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

I know you're all just horripilating in anticipation of what this pasty right-wing doughball is gonna do next!

Progressive Bloggers 2010

C.S. Lewis manages to bring both into play toward the end of his funny and horripilating That Hideous S.rength (1946) -- correctly subtitled "A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups" -- where the pseudo-scientists of Belbury are afflicted with a kind of instant aphasia at their terminal dinner-party.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3 1984