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Example sentences for "quicken"

Lexicographically close words:
quibuscunque; quibusdam; quick; quicke; quicked; quickened; quickeneth; quickening; quickenings; quickens
  1. So would I live to quicken and inspire, So would I, thus consumed, burn out and die.

  2. She had hoped to quicken her husband's sluggish perceptions, and to create in his mind an incipient love for the pure and beautiful things after which her own mind was beginning to aspire.

  3. A fifth motive to quicken us to this duty, may be even the practice of the Antichristian state and kingdom; popery hath been dexterous to propagate and spread itself by this means.

  4. It made him, however, quicken his retreat, and when Captain S.

  5. What we must now do is to supple him, to quicken his co-ordination, to improve his poise, and to put his trunk and thorax into better shape.

  6. We must quicken co-ordination and improve the man's rapidity of response to command.

  7. Whether the Effect of Subsequent Penance Is to Quicken Even Dead Works?

  8. He that raised up Jesus from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit that dwelleth in you.

  9. Objection 1: It would seem that the effect of subsequent Penance is to quicken even dead works, those, namely, that were not done in charity.

  10. It is a mystery that I put before you: in its spiritual sense it will quicken you; but the flesh profiteth nothing.

  11. Therefore Penance does not quicken works which before were dead.

  12. For it seems more difficult to bring to life that which has been deadened, since this is never done naturally, than to quicken that which never had life, since certain living things are engendered naturally from things without life.

  13. Further, a soul is necessary to the body, in order to quicken it.

  14. He that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also our [Vulg.

  15. He that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also your mortal bodies.

  16. My leopardine beauties are rarer, My tusky ones vanish, My children have aped mine own slaughters To quicken my wane.

  17. Dawn, hold not long the day from us, But quicken it to prime!

  18. That the joy of motion, the rapture of being, Shall throw strong light when our season is fleeing, Nor quicken aged blood in vain, At the gates of the vault, on the verge of the plain?

  19. That officer, on receiving tidings of his general's assassination, instantly wrote to the Licentiate Vaca de Castro, advising him of the state of affairs in Peru, and urging him to quicken his march towards the south.

  20. But the Spanish government, with more wisdom, countermanded the order, only requiring the functionaries to quicken their own departure, and take their place without loss of time in the expedition.

  21. Pizarro now sent back to quicken the march of the rear, as he was unwilling that the Peruvian envoy should find him with his present diminished numbers.

  22. Their safety, they felt, was to fly, not to fight, and they profited by the exhaustion of their pursuers only to quicken their retreat.

  23. But enough was done to quicken the perceptions of the Audience as to their course, for they felt their own lives suspended by a thread in such unscrupulous hands.

  24. Meanwhile, Carbajal was sent into the city to quicken their deliberations.

  25. We believe that these severe, natural calamities are visited upon men by the Lord for the good of his children, to quicken their devotion to others, and to bring out their better natures, that they may love and serve him.

  26. At once the nymphs feel strange emotions within them, which quicken into uneasiness and longing at the sight of Gallathea and Phillida.

  27. But a skilful dramatist would have left her some unconquered emotions of reluctance or distress to quicken our sympathy.

  28. It was dead,--that body from which he had believed that life was to go forth to quicken the universe.

  29. And as it was, there came over me at times a feeling of isolation that was not disagreeable, and yet was enough to make me quicken my steps eagerly when I saw some one before me on the road.

  30. They toiled in the sugar plantations from sunrise to sunset, and if their labours flagged, there were the whips of the overseer and his men to quicken them.

  31. We shall have to quicken you one of these days unless you cease from abusing the liberty you enjoy.

  32. Whilst still they hesitated, Blood added something to quicken their decision.

  33. Unbelief mocked everything, superstition assumed its most absurd and utterly senseless forms, and religions of an irrational mongrel type sought in vain to quicken again a nerveless and soulless heathenism.

  34. In order to quicken it and make it stand erect the Demiurge breathes into it his own breath, but thereby deprives himself of a great part of that pneumatical element which he had from his mother.

  35. But quicken thy step, good John; I have influence with Lord Churchill, and we must contrive to see him, ere the foreigner falls to work again.

  36. We quicken with largesse of life, and spring with vivid mystery.

  37. My dearest Ferdinand, I would my sighes Or sad lamenting teares might have the power Like Balme to quicken thy benummed joynts: Then would I drowne this marble e're I went And heat it hote with vapour of my breath.

  38. I prethee goe to my uncle the Lord Monford, and intreat him to come quicken our Eares with some of his pleasant Spirit; This same Fowleweather has made me so melancholly, prethie make haste.

  39. Others, and by far the larger part, anxiously desired the queen's visit, as likely to quicken the operations of the siege, and bring it to a favorable issue.

  40. Another fit of shuddering repulsion made her quicken her pace, as though, again, she were escaping from pursuit.

  41. After a moment's hesitation, he began to quicken his steps, and soon overtook the man in question.

  42. Ought not all this to quicken our energies in the blessed work?

  43. Then gradually he began to quicken his horses' movements and to put them on heavier loads.

  44. Can it be possible," he said to himself, "that once she had the power to make my heart quicken its beat?

  45. Such an ideal is lost sight of when a man cultivates his garden-plot of private pleasures, leaving it to chance and barbarian fury to govern the state and quicken the world's passions.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quicken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accelerate; advance; advantage; aid; amuse; animate; arouse; awake; awaken; boost; brace; bundle; bustle; cheer; conceive; crowd; cultivate; dispatch; ease; electrify; encourage; energize; engender; enliven; exalt; excite; exhilarate; expedite; explain; facilitate; favor; fillip; fire; flurry; flush; fortify; forward; freshen; further; galvanize; gladden; grease; hasten; hearten; heat; help; hie; hurry; hustle; inflame; inspire; inspirit; intensify; interest; invigorate; kindle; liven; loose; lubricate; motivate; move; oil; pique; poke; precipitate; press; prime; promote; provoke; push; quicken; race; railroad; raise; refine; refresh; regale; renew; resuscitate; revive; rise; rouse; rush; sharpen; simplify; smooth; speed; spur; stampede; stimulate; stir; thrill; touch; transport; urge; vitalize; vivify; warm; whet; whip