excitant

Conscientiousness is a sort of moral opium; an excitant in small doses, perhaps, but at bottom a strong narcotic.

Posthumous ambition perhaps requires an atmosphere of roses; and the more rugged excitant of Wick east winds had made another boy of me.

Even Capes had been for her merely an excitant to passionate love--a mere idol at whose feet one could enjoy imaginative wallowings.

Joe Marley said that's only Acacia nilotica, which is taken as a digestive excitant and to prevent hunger and thirst on raids.

Presently I realised that the direct symbol and excitant of my fear was the hideous pounding whose incessant reverberations throbbed maddeningly against my exhausted brain.

I was myself perhaps a more effective excitant; and at least to one old gentleman the spectacle of my successful struggles against sleep - and I hope they were successful - cheered the flight of time.

The next step was neuronography, strychninization, the firing of certain key areas of the cerebrum with this potent excitant in order to trace the pathways from the brain's jellied rind to the hidden cerebellum, the thalamus, the hypothalamus.

Alarmed, your pituitary and adrenal glands flood your bloodstream with their excitant hormones.

Briefly and brutally stated, West's sole absorbing interest was a secret study of the phenomena of life and its cessation, leading toward the reanimation of the dead through injections of an excitant solution.

This is an excitant effect, but trihexyphenidyl also appears to be more of an anxiolytic than dicycloverine/dicyclomine, and to last longer; this is also the case with the euphoriant effect.

As is the case with many anticholinergics such as ethanolamine and alkylamine first-generation antihistamines, there are some people, the elderly in particular, who experience the dopaminergic and atropine-like excitant effect without much CNS depression.

At times the parallelism of so many cases in so many distant ages continued to worry me as it had at first, but on the other hand I reflected that the excitant folklore was undoubtedly more universal in the past than in the present.

"Dangerous wellness, 'a morbid brilliance,' a deceptive euphoria with abysses beneath - this is the trap promised and threatened by excess, whether it is set by nature, in the form of some intoxicating disorder or by ourselves in the form of some excitant addiction."

Cette découverte faite à peine six mois plus tôt, alors même qu'il connaissait les pires difficultés avec Nicole était, et de loin, le moment le plus excitant de sa vie.