By joining pieces side by side, pressing with carbon plates or a plate and a rod, and other suitable manipulations, stirrers, spatulas, and other objects may easily be made from rod, and its manipulation is relatively easy on account of the fact that one does not have to worry about the bore of the tube.
"Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing"
Francis C. Frary
By these means ignorant people will be prevented from applying for advice to men who may justly be termed stirrers-up of strife.
"Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark"
Mary Wollstonecraft
There are common barrators among doctors as there are among lawyers,-stirrers up of strife under one pretext and another, but in reality because they like it.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)