With all these advantages, and all the world open to them in newspapers and in books, they ought to be the leaders and stimulators of the best conversation.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner
A savage, compressing pain, very different from the fiery touch of the nerve stimulators, which held him immobile, unable to cry out or draw breath.
"Oneness"
James H. Schmitz
They were the awakeners of a new intellectual life; not only the stimulators of an emotional pietism always prone to run into religious intoxication and extravagance.
"The Coming of the Friars"
Augustus Jessopp