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Words nearby electric needle

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How to use electric needle in a sentence

You have guessed something of this by the use of the compass, or electric needle.
The Master Key|L. Frank Baum
His own met them full; and a little tingling shock ran through him, as at the touch of an electric needle.
Far to Seek|Maud Diver
To those who have any timidity at all about the electric needle, there is peroxide of hydrogen and diluted ammonia.
The Woman Beautiful|Helen Follett Stevans
The electric needle is the only sure and certain cure, and two sittings will be sufficient to remove them for good and always.
The Woman Beautiful|Helen Follett Stevans

The common man of to-day is capable of a like transformation if pricked with the electric needle of a lofty appeal.
They Who Knock at Our Gates|Mary Antin

British Dictionary definitions for electric needle

electric needle

noun

a surgical instrument for cutting tissue by the application of a high-frequency current

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