Staffansvisa, which was sung before every house on New Year's eve, in Deerness, Orkney, with the same object of stimulating hospitality.
His intellectual and scholarly development, too, had reached that stage in which foreign study and travel were certain to be most stimulating and fruitful.
To younger scholars Professor Child was an influence at once stimulating and benignant.
They were created in various Continental countries during the Middle Ages for the purpose of stimulating trade, but Copenhagen and, in a restricted sense, Hamburg and Bremen are now the only free ports in Europe.
Moreover, just to come in contact with him in times like ours is stimulating and refreshing.
It's not a very happy thought to think of their being used; and it's not a very stimulating one to think of their not being.
In the study of laws, life histories, and life groups, the causal relations in nature are found to be wonderfully stimulating to those who have begun to trace them out.
And is there any motive or incentive so stimulating to the will as a steady and constantly increasing interest in studies?
These laws and others in biology, if developed on concrete specimens, give much insight into the whole realm of nature, more stimulating by far than that based on scientific classifications, as orders, families and species.
But, secondly, there are found still more immediate means of stimulatingand strengthening the will, namely, in the feelings.
Not only will the moral effect be intensified, but the close dependence of each study upon the others will be perceptibly felt as valuable and stimulating to the children.
Yet, it must be confessed that the "bread and butter" motive proved to be a most powerful one instimulating the demand for schools.
After holding various bishoprics, Dunstan became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959, and was then in a position to undertake the task of restoring the monastic conditions of the country and consequently of stimulating its educational activities.
Though all the details given in Asser cannot be accepted as true, yet the general statement that Alfred played an important part in stimulating the educational activity of his country is unquestioned.
It was her way of stimulating her mental faculties.
The riots were invariably announced for days, often weeks, beforehand, the police frequently stimulating the people to hatred and violence.
For one moment he stood silent; then, as he felt the terriblestimulating charm of difficulty beginning to work upon him, his courage blazed up.
He beheld the very heart's core of corruption of that Paris which Blucher so aptly described; and so far from shuddering at the sight, he was intoxicated with enjoyment of the intellectually stimulating society in which he found himself.
Nothing is so stimulating to the youthful mind as the unchecked run of a library, with its delightful excursions into the unexplored country of literature.
In the first place the stabilized price was established primarily for the sake of stimulating an imperatively needed increased production.
Let us assume that the two teachers are on a level in respect of their capacity for influencing and stimulating their pupils, and let us indicate that level by the algebraical symbol x.
There was an extraordinary sense of youthfulness about her--not the youthfulness of immaturity, but the stimulating quality of the spirit.
Robbed of her brother's stimulating loyalty, Elise relapsed into a sulky obedience to her governess and her mother.
She had a cheerfulness that obtruded itself, like a creditor, at unpropitious moments; and her voice, though not displeasing, gave the impression that it might become volcanic at any moment.
In a world where there is so little that is genuine, why should I debar myself from the pleasure of being a humbug?
Meester Selwyn,' she said indignantly, 'you have not been listening to me.
Moving water, then, has the power of stimulating emotion and prompting intuition; and this power is manifested in exceptional degree when the source from which the water issues, and the goal to which it flows, are unknown.
He was one of the most remarkable thinkers of antiquity, and the main substance of his teaching remains as a living and stimulating element in the most advanced scientific and metaphysical doctrines of the present day.
Generation after generation has found them to be capable of stirring peculiar emotions, and of stimulating profound thoughts on the mystery of life.
And it was the sun and wind of LeVallon's enigmatic, stimulating presence close to her that caused the miracle.
Sir Charles's main object in local government was to decentralize, and he sought to move in this direction by stimulating the exercise of existing powers and the habit of responsibility in local popularly elected bodies.
But it would be a mistake to ignore the utility of such efforts as his in stimulating interest in the subject and assisting those whose labours have resulted in material improvements in recent years.
I have the highest opinion of the value of its work, and of the good influence it exercised in stimulating inquiry and action in many directions.
It would have a stimulating effect in quarters where a little stimulus was much needed, and had given much satisfaction to other people in Biarritz besides himself.
Luther knew of no better means of stimulating the Evangelical rulers to take action in ecclesiastical things than by setting up before them the example of King David.
Enders says of this work: “Almost all the proposals Luther makes here with the object of stimulating the project of a Visitation which had come to a standstill are again found in the Instructions to the Visitors.
His intercourse with friends and pupils was rendered more stimulating and attractive, and in many cases more useful.
There was a stimulating quality in his personality.
And she fell to scolding him in the way he usually loved,--but at the moment found less stimulating for some reason.
His mind, helped by thestimulating air and sunshine, worked swiftly.
The words 'Theban hills' called up a vivid and stimulating picture in particular.
Birds and the lore of ancient Egypt, it appeared, were merely two of his pet hobbies; and he talked in such amusing fashion that he kept Tom in roars of laughter, while stimulating Madame Jaretzka to vehement contradictions.
Such poets seek to atone for their want of vigorous feeling by stimulating our eyes and ears.
They are like personalities not sufficiently at one to lose themselves in each other, yet not sufficiently unlike to be mutually stimulatingand enlarging, between whom there can be only a fruitless rivalry turning into hate.
To OWN even a small spot of our dear old mother earth hath in it a relish of something stimulating to human nature.
For the adolescent it is not--it is a stimulating drug.
And this uncertain exchange diverts considerable amounts of money that should be stimulating business enterprise into a barren and mischievous gambling with the circulation.
It is more probable that the stimulating rays produce an actual chemical change in the phosphorescent substance.
In most of these cases the emission stops as soon as the stimulating waves are withdrawn, and in these cases the phenomenon has been called fluorescence.
But in the no less extraordinary conditions of to-day's industry it is not without advantages as a means of stimulating production.
By this means we could obtain sufficient compensation from Germany without unduly stimulating her manufactures and export trade to our detriment.
Unless it produced some agreeable stimulating effect its use would not be so common.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stimulating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
