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Electric

adjective

Using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity. Synonym: electrical. "Electric wiring" , "Electrical appliances" , "An electrical storm"

(of a situation) exceptionally tense.

Affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling. Synonyms: galvanic, galvanising, galvanizing. "The new leader had a galvanic effect on morale"

noun

A car that is powered by electricity. Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car.

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"Electric" Quotes from Famous Books

... higher value and a deeper tint? Are we not conscious of instigations which give to the beloved features the beauty of the ideal by inspiring them with thought? The past, dwelt on in all its details becomes magnified; the future teems with hope. When two hearts filled with these electric clouds meet each other, their interview is like the welcome storm which revives the earth and stimulates it with the swift lightnings of the thunderbolt. How many tender pleasures came to me when I found these thoughts and these sensations reciprocal! With what glad eyes I followed ...

— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac

... to Fairfax Court-house, and telegraphed to General Beauregard, then at Manassa's Junction, the intelligence she had risked so much to convey. Availing himself promptly of the facts, he flashed them along electric wires to Richmond, and to General Johnston; and thus, through womanly devotion, a timely junction of the two armies was effected, ere McDowell's banners flouted the ...

— Macaria • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... cholera, which is eminently acute, might by some be considered as an exception. In negative diseases, there is a low degree of electro-vitality. And it has been remarked by careful observers, particularly in the Orient, that cholera rages with greatest destructiveness when no special electric phenomena have for long time appeared in the atmosphere, and when the artificial electrical apparatus could be made to yield its sparks only with difficulty, or not at all. And again, after a thunderstorm, when ...

— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication • Daniel Clark

... suggested it; perhaps it was something in the play I had just witnessed—it is not always easy to put one's finger on the invisible electric thread that runs from thought to thought—but as I sauntered on I fell to thinking of the ill-assorted marriages I had known. Suddenly there hurried along the gravelled path which crossed mine obliquely a half-indistinguishable throng of pathetic men and women: two ...

— A Midnight Fantasy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... earth attracts the electric bolt, and that attraction is much stronger than any the Snowbird may have for the electricity in the clouds," Mark told him. "I don't know erbout dat," grumbled Wash. "An' if jest one o' dem crazy lightning bolts should take it into its haid ter segastuate eround disher flying merchine—biff! ...

— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood

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