Galvanic [adjective]

But he knew the handwriting at once; and it gave him a galvanic shock that half sobered him for the moment.

I was set trembling all over by a violent shock—just as though I had touched a galvanic battery.

To hear him denounce a thing was to give one the fierce, searching delight of galvanic waves.

In fixing a pie crust his fingers touched hers, and he started as if he had touched a galvanic battery.

I had only to whisper the word "Breakfast" in his ears to have him start as if he had received a galvanic shock.

Galvanic susceptibility is exhausted by too long-continued exercise, and is recruited by repose.

The cuticle is an obstacle to galvanic effects; they are always feebly manifested in parts covered by it.

But it didn't matter—it was only about whether the return of memory had or had not been due to the galvanic battery on the pier.

He was quite like himself before that unfortunate little galvanic battery upset everything.

Not so her daughter, who, with Sally as guardian and dolly as ward, is awaiting the arrival of the party at the galvanic battery.