At the same moment the door of the room below opened, and the captain's mellifluous bass notes floated upstairs, charged with the customary
stimulant to his wife's faculties.
When the other
stimulants lost their influence, I doubled the dose.
He decided that the one chance of restoring me to my better and brighter self was to try the
stimulant of a life among new people and new scenes.
Inspired by the
stimulant application of Crouch's gloves, his torpid cunning had been shaken up into excellent working order at last.
Clements that the medicine was a powerful
stimulant, and that it would certainly give Anne strength to get up and bear the fatigue of a journey to London of only a few hours.
They talked with fire and enthusiasm, the intellectual
stimulant stirring them as he had seen drink and anger stir other men.
His fevered membranes and burnt stomach began to clamour for more and more of the scorching fluid; while his brain, thrust all awry by the unwonted
stimulant, permitted him to go any length to obtain it.
In one of these two instances of a craving for
stimulants, developed from sheer anxiety, I cannot assert that the man's seaman-like qualities were impaired in the least.
All are sated with this deep draught of pleasure, and eager to commence another trapping campaign; for hardship and hard work, spiced with the
stimulants of wild adventures, and topped off with an annual frantic carousal, is the lot of the restless trapper.
It would appear as if all the cries of the cardinal, and all the attacks of death upon this representative of the past, were
stimulants for the genius of this thinker with the bushy eyebrows, who was turning already towards the rising sun of a regenerated society.
Yet the main cause lay deeper still; she had outgrown
stimulants, and was passing from words to things.
No
stimulants were administered, and though they passed two doctors' houses no stop was made.