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galvanic
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  • His back—which formed one of the most galvanic contours in the flagraising photograph—now lay limp and exposed to the setting sun.†   (source)
  • There was; it heaved itself out of the water in endless, galvanic convulsions.†   (source)
  • Most of them were called something relief: ASCENDANT RELIEF, ENDOGENOUS RELIEF, MOTIVE RELIEF, GALVANIC RELIEF.†   (source)
  • Once in a while there's someone...someone like you...and then the only thing that convinces is galvanic contact.†   (source)
  • Dead slizzard legs are made to jump with galvanic currents.†   (source)
  • Reich shook with galvanic spasms that forced him to release the girl.†   (source)
  • a galvanic cell
  • a galvanic battery
  • Reactionary grumblings are more like galvanic twitching of the dead than a basis of an uprising.
  • There are fourteen water-mills, six steam-engines, and a galvanic battery   (source)
  • And there are plenty of animals that can create enough galvanic force for a spark.†   (source)
  • "It's a type of galvanic force," I said, then hesitated.†   (source)
  • He shook with galvanic spasms that forced him to release the girl.†   (source)
  • The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence-the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life.†   (source)
  • Ooh-ah!" the stereoscopic lips came together again, and once more the facial erogenous zones of the six thousand spectators in the Alhambra tingled with almost intolerable galvanic pleasure.†   (source)
  • It was as though he had received a galvanic shock.†   (source)
  • The haste, and, as it were, the galvanic impulse of the movement, were really quite startling.†   (source)
  • It was as potent, and perhaps endowed with the same kind of efficacy, as a galvanic ring!†   (source)
  • Quick jerks as of galvanic shocks disclosed under the flat coverlet the outlines of meagre and agitated legs; he let go my shoulder and reached after something in the air; his body trembled tensely like a released harp-string; and while I looked down, the spectral horror in him broke through his glassy gaze.†   (source)
  • 'There are fourteen water-mills, six steam-engines, and a galvanic battery, always a-working upon it, and they can't make it fast enough, though the men work so hard that they die off, and the widows is pensioned directly, with twenty pound a-year for each of the children, and a premium of fifty for twins.†   (source)
  • Don't be galvanic, sir!'†   (source)
  • It happened when he was studying in Paris, and just at the time when, over and above his other work, he was occupied with some galvanic experiments.†   (source)
  • A thick-legged table, littered over with papers black with the accumulation of ancient dust as though they had been smoked, occupied all the space between the two windows; on the walls hung Turkish firearms, whips, a sabre, two maps, some anatomical diagrams, a portrait of Hoffland, a monogram woven in hair in a blackened frame, and a diploma under glass; a leather sofa, torn and worn into hollows in parts, was placed between two huge cupboards of birch-wood; on the shelves books, boxes, stuffed birds, jars, and phials were huddled together in confusion; in one corner stood a broken galvanic battery.†   (source)
  • Words cannot describe the effects produced by our galvanic rays on these huge, whimsically sculpted blocks, whose every angle, ridge, and facet gave off a different glow depending on the nature of the veins running inside the ice.†   (source)
  • At first they wore the aspect of charity, and seemed white and slender angels who would save me; but then, all at once, there came a most deadly nausea over my spirit, and I felt every fibre in my frame thrill as if I had touched the wire of a galvanic battery, while the angel forms became meaningless spectres, with heads of flame, and I saw that from them there would be no help.†   (source)
  • As we raised a cry of victory, Jack, desirous of a share in the glory of conquest, ran close to the creature, firing his pistol into its side, when he was sent sprawling over and over by a movement of its tail, excited to a last galvanic effort by the shot.†   (source)
  • It was the pregnancy of solemn admonition in the singular, low, hissing utterance; and, above all, it was the character, the tone, the key, of those few, simple, and familiar, yet whispered syllables, which came with a thousand thronging memories of bygone days, and struck upon my soul with the shock of a galvanic battery.†   (source)
  • The draught produced a galvanic effect, a violent trembling pervaded the old man's limbs, his eyes opened until it was fearful to gaze upon them, he heaved a sigh which resembled a shriek, and then his convulsed body returned gradually to its former immobility, the eyes remaining open.†   (source)
  • The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under the influence of a galvanic shock.†   (source)
  • From a mail-order house she ordered a battery-operated galvanic device which applied the stimulation of low-voltage electrical current to his paralyzed limbs.†   (source)
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