skin-prickling

The deep-bone thrumming quieted, returned to a skin-prickling tingle.

Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

They tell a skin-prickling story all by themselves (and I do fear for that "grocery boy" ...).

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She closed her eyes to shut her dark memories away, the roar of skin-prickling heat and the smell of burnt flesh.

Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010

The thumping of machinery grew louder as they stepped in, and the air temperature went from summery to skin-prickling hot.

Firestorm L.A Graf 2000

It is none of your heavy racist skin-prickling, no, but a feeling of one more burden, along with the scarcity of food in the Zone, the chicken-coop, cave or basement lodgings at sunfall, the armed-occupation phobias and skulkings as bad as Holland last year, comfortable in here at least, lotos-snuggly, but disastrous out in the World of Reality she still believes in and will never give up hoping to rejoin someday.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Everyone knows the horrible skin-prickling heart-thudding feeling when the normal suddenly goes wrong.

Rat Race Francis, Dick 1970

It's not a stretch to also say there are two "poles" in Johansen's music-a deep, skin-prickling sense of melancholy on one hand, and a survivor's steely resolve on the other.

Playback:stl Syndication 2009

To do so would destroy one of the most deliciously skin-prickling secrets of the season.

Web Section Catey Sullivan 2008

"The story I promised to read, which Cornell sent me, was the wonderful "Goodbye New York," a skin-prickling tale of two people who have committed a crime; desparate to leave the big city, their stratagems to avoid detection, their near-captures and their terror, are told in writing far superior to that of the usual thriller.

Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Gorman 2007

"The story I promised to read, which Cornell sent me, was the wonderful "Goodbye New York," a skin-prickling tale of two people who have committed a crime; desparate to leave the big city, their stratagems to avoid detection, their near-captures and their terror, are told in writing far superior to that of the usual thriller.

Cornell Woolrich by Richard Moore Ed Gorman 2007