Aden from the interior, and largely used, especially by the Arabs, as a pleasurable excitant.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

The child's song had been an excitant to the memory in recalling those first years in Auvergne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

Opium, the type of the latter class, is in its primary action excitant, but secondarily narcotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

While some light-colored oats certainly have considerable excitant power, some dark oats have little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

It is somewhat tart, I grant it; acriora orexim excitant embammata, as he said, sharp sauces increase appetite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Joe Marley said that's only Acacia nilotica, which is taken as a digestive excitant and to prevent hunger and thirst on raids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedoms Challenge]

The immediate excitant of his unrest was found in the college students, who passed his place of business at all hours of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The cell-bodies of the excitant fibers are found in the sympathetic ganglia, but fibers from the bulb connect with and control them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

Nor could we, with De Quincey, apostrophize to a certain other excitant, "O just, subtle, and mighty opium! thou boldest the keys of Paradise!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

Bill, the effeminate to whom fear was an excitant, spoke with glee from the shadows where he was invisible, but his bed creaked as he bounded up and down on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

The reaction from this unnatural excitant is correspondingly depressing; and the melancholy, the "overwhelming horror" that ensues, calls for a renewal of the stimulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

Experiments have been recently made by Mr. Sanson with a view to settling the question whether oats have or have not the excitant property that has been attributed to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

The excitant of the muscles is also a material fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference

It may be employed as a very gentle excitant and antiseptic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

D'accord, le championnat du Brésil n'est pas le plus excitant du monde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fil infos football | SO FOOT] Reference

Seafood is rich in phosphorus, "which has an irritant and excitant effect".    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAYonline] Reference

The leaves are emmenagogue, purgative like those of senna, and excitant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

U.S. intelligence sources uncovered few days ago excitant news concerning the man the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

The flowers are excitant and sudorific, and are used in the form of an ointment as a discutient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

What importance can this have, since all the difference depends on the position occupied by the excitant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference

A dilute solution may be employed as an excitant to wounds, in which the healing process has become sluggish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

First it made me wide awake, and acted as an excitant to the nerves, similar to coffee, but much more powerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference

Their gestures were lost in the tumult and the darkness; what the crowd did see seemed to act only as an excitant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nabob] Reference

'The Sulphate of Zinc' is valuable as an excitant to wounds, and promotes adhesion between divided surfaces and the 'radix'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Even Capes had been for her merely an excitant to passionate love -- a mere idol at whose feet one could enjoy imaginative wallowings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference

Posthumous ambition perhaps requires an atmosphere of roses; and the more rugged excitant of Wick east winds had made another boy of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays] Reference