 | 1810 - 566 sidor
...would be but unpleasant repetitions of such acts of barbarity as would chill the blood with horror, and cause " the hair to stand on end, like quills upon the fretful porcupine." In this one picture you have a description sufficiently comprehensive to give you a correct idea of... | |
 | Albany Fonblanque - 1837 - 424 sidor
...horror at this hideous, but too accurate picture ; but more remained to freeze the blood, and make the hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine. The poem continued — ,_ Spirit of Burke ! whose belligerent fury Halloed earth's bloodhounds to rapine... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1903 - 232 sidor
...(Whose lightest word would harrow up the soul) of Lawyer's impositions, charges, fees, enough to make the hair to stand on end, like quills upon the fretful Porcupine." 1 Colonel Edward Wigglesworth, of Newburyport, was a cousin of Professor Edward Wigglesworth, of Cambridge.... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1903 - 220 sidor
...(Whose lightest word would harrow up the soul) of Lawyer's impositions, charges, fees, enough to make the hair to stand on end, like quills upon the fretful Porcupine." 1 Colonel Edward Wigglesworth, of Newburyport, was a cousin of Professor Edward Wigglesworth, of Cambridge.... | |
 | John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1903 - 220 sidor
...(Whose lightest word would harrow up the soul) of Lawyer's impositions, charges, fees, enough to make the hair to stand on end, like quills upon the fretful Porcupine." 1 Colonel Edward \Vigglesworth, of Newburyport, was a cousin of Professor Edward Wigglesworth, of Cambridge.... | |
 | 1912 - 812 sidor
...sudden freak or whim ; the word was originally used in the sense of a sudden fear, a horror making the hair to stand on end 'like quills upon the fretful porcupine' — 'quel tremore che fa arricciare i capelli o per freddo o per orrore di checchessia' (Fanfani);... | |
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... Last evening a bill for regulating the practice of the law, was debated and finally rejected in the House of Representatives — although Mr. Carnes, in a lengthy speech — Did a tale unfold — (Whose lightest word would harrow up the soul) of Lawyer's... 