| 1. | It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | The galvanic battery was applied, and he suddenly expired in one of those ecstatic paroxysms which, occasionally, it superinduces. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under the influence of a galvanic shock. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | The mention of the galvanic battery, nevertheless, recalls to my memory a well known and very extraordinary case in point, where its action proved the means of restoring to animation a young attorney of London, who had been interred for two days. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |