So uneventful is life in these out-of-the-way places that such an arrival is the greatest possible social enlivener.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Joe Manton just then brought in a bouquet for Miss Evelyn, a very common enlivener of the breakfast-table, all the more when, as in the present case, the sisters could not divine where it came from.
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell
The spirit of White's and Brookes', the companion of a prince and a score of noblemen, the enlivener of every fashionable table, was forgotten by all but this one doctor.
"Curiosities of Impecuniosity"
H. G. Somerville