galvanic

But he knew the handwriting at once; and it gave him a galvanic shock that half sobered him for the moment.

I was set trembling all over by a violent shock—just as though I had touched a galvanic battery.

To hear him denounce a thing was to give one the fierce, searching delight of galvanic waves.

In fixing a pie crust his fingers touched hers, and he started as if he had touched a galvanic battery.

I had only to whisper the word "Breakfast" in his ears to have him start as if he had received a galvanic shock.