Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...habit of taking the bit in his teeth and bolting. The experimenter contrived to connect the bit by two small wires along the reins with a small electric battery which he carried in the buggy. The apparatus was so arranged that the driver could give the horse a shock of greater or less intnsity without injury. The trial was an entire success. The horse after two or three shocks became docile, and obeyed the driver's commands instantly...
...push most vigorously on the cleats. The same results are produced by a great pressure for a short time and by a small pressure for a long time. This is the principle which enables dynamite bombs to be fired. If shot from a cannon the sudden shock explodes the bomb immediately, and the connon is destroyed. But by the use of compressed air in a long tube, thus imparting the velocity gradually, a 1000-pound bomb can be fired two miles without danger to the cannoneer, but with most disastrous effects on the object aimed at. The common notion that...
...good, hearty, honest out bursts of delight, is not outside the missionary spirit. It helped to maugurate or to increase among so many, at least, a better understanding of what the body can reach in fleetness, in dexterity, in strength and in endurance; and in spite of the shock to fastidiousness of a little bruising and a little dust, and a very little blood, it gave a glimpse of the possibilities of the corporeal human nature, which was as beautiful...
...amusement for an entire day. Most of them realized the exhaustive nature of the display and were already fortifying the inner man with sandwiches, cheese, bits of sausage, and bottled beer. Anxious fathers and mothers were wedging a slow and painful progress through the crowd, towing some half dozen shock-headed, wide-eyed offspring of graded ages and heights. Surely little Fritz and Heinrich and Annchen and Kaetchie must see the gay colors and the prancing horses, albeit the pressure of the crowd, forcing their tender necks against the ropes over which they hung on tiptoe, threatened slow strangulation...
April 27. Dr. Porter. First aid in cases of drowning, asphyxia, from gas, &c., in cases of apoplexy, epilepsy, shock...