Electrified

Examples

• This spirited burst from Beth electrified the club, and Jo left her seat to shake hands approvingly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She was first transfixed with surprise, and then electrified with delight. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I was electrified by the likeness between this unhappy woman and Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And may reluctant admiration acknowledge that he electrified her with two words? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They proved capable of passing through sheets of aluminum and of copper, and of discharging electrified bodies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Gurth started up as if electrified. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Watson, who helped him construct the two armatures, or vibrating discs, at the end of an electrified wire that stretched from the workshop to an adjoining room. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The moment the horse struck the electrified soil he stood straight up in the air, and then reared again; and the crowd yelled, the policeman yelled; and the horse started to run away. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This action of pith-balls, when electrified, was the simplest mode known of making telegraphic signals, and it was accordingly adopted by several of the early inventors of Electric Telegraphs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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