"Stimulus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to finish any particular part." {6} No one can hate drunkenness more than I do, but I am confident the human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given to imagination— imagination being little else than another name for illusion. As for wayside chapels, mine, when I am in London, are the shop windows with ...
— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler
... way of speaking!" cried Hilda from the bed, and Laura glanced at her with a deprecating, reproachful smile, in reproof of an offence admittedly incorrigible. But she went on as if she were conscious of a stimulus. ...
— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)
... undoubtedly did much to augment the new respect for woman's intellectual ability, and was a stimulus to the brilliant group which succeeded her. Miss Ferrier, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen all owe her something of their inspiration and ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... the ship seemed to be carried on with a very unnecessary amount of vociferation and contumelious language. An Englishman will sometimes, in critical or urgent moments, garnish his orders with an expletive or two by way of stimulus to the crew; but upon the occasion to which I am now referring there was not the slightest excuse for anything of the kind. The weather was fine, the wind moderate, and we were evidently not engaged upon the performance of some feat of complicated ...
— A Pirate of the Caribbees • Harry Collingwood
... life—and you are responsible for the fruit they bear; but having sown them, you are powerless afterwards to prevent them from bearing fruit after their kind in other lives. Once launched in the air around you, they spread their contagion of evil or their stimulus to good, their savour of ...
— Sermons at Rugby • John Percival
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