Spohr's playing is remarkable for its repose and finish; Sivori electrifies by the most powerful appeals to the affections."
"Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday"
Henry C. Lahee
This polarity, or the presence of positive and negative electricity in one stone, may be strikingly illustrated in a very simple manner:-If a little sulphur and red-lead, both in fine powder, are shaken up together in a paper or similar bag, the moderate friction of particle against particle electrifies both; one negatively, the other positively.
"The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones"
John Mastin
There are two descriptions of clever women, observe; the one is endowed with corporeal cleverness-the other with mental; and I don't know which of the two is the greater nuisance to society; the one torments you with her management-the other with her smart sayings; the one is for ever rattling her bunch of keys in your ears-the other electrifies you with the shock of her wit; and both talk so much and so loud, and are such egotists, that I rather think a clever woman is even a greater term of reproach than a good creature.
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier