How To Use Quickening In A Sentence
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Your first example hearkens back to the idea of quickening — the point at which a woman “feels” a child inside — hardly at the moment of fertilziation, indeed, often not until week 20 or even later depending on how the placenta is situated.
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But there has to be a huge doubt about him reproducing his best form with the ground quickening all the time.
The Sun
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I continued to walk, my pace quickening once I was in a somewhat safer place.
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He timed it beautifully, racing at a steady pace before quickening and then finding another gear at the furlong pole.
The Sun
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Despite himself, Davis felt a quickening of the old scientific curiosity.
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But there has to be a huge doubt about him reproducing his best form with the ground quickening all the time.
The Sun
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Christie's total topped its own presale expectation of up to £ 51.8 million and underscored the role that new, international buyers are playing in the art market's quickening recovery.
Christie's Auction Gets Warhol Boost
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Now, that quickening we call interest originates in the nervous system, but is not limited by it.
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From the fingers in which he'd claimed he could already feel the Art quickening beads of power oozed like ectoplasm, bursting in the air.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The notion of "quickening" -- when the woman could first sense movement in her womb -- was sometimes used as a dividing line between ethical and unethical abortion.
John Backman: Can 'I Don't Know' Break The Abortion Stalemate?
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Vernon and I were starving, our bodies tense; then relaxing as our tongues swirled around the mozzarella cucina and the hot antipasto, our breathing quickening as we devoured the clams oreganato, stuffed mushrooms, eggplant rollantini, and artichoke hearts.
A Kettle of Vultures
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The Catholic church teaches that life begins at conception; it used to teach that life began at quickening, some 40 days into pregnancy.
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The opening act, a conversation piece, always tends to outstay its welcome, and Peter Selwyn, conducting, might have helped the fine cast and orchestra by quickening the tempi.
Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra – review
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Quickening his stride, he outsprinted Able Prince, with Scintillation nearly two lengths behind in third.
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My heart was now fluttering, my pulse quickening.
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It is the quickening of a city 's pulse.
Times, Sunday Times
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the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain
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In the daytime there had been the basking ridge where great ribbed wings of iridescent green or gray or black, dull red or brown or yellow, stretched to channel the sun to the dragon's quickening savoring bodies.
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The pace is quickening and the lines of engagement are already drawn up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Companies are finding it hard to cope with the quickening pace of technological change.
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Now something of a generic term for various activities on snow, skiing can actually mean snowboarding, snowblading or, for those with their finger firmly on the quickening pulse of snowsport, twin-tip skiing.
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Asha waited expectantly, with a trace of fear and curiosity, her heartbeat quickening slightly at the prospect.
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To see it, quickening, life.
The Broken God
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The pace is quickening and the lines of engagement are already drawn up.
Times, Sunday Times
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They heard the engine revving and the quickening beat of the rotors.
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There are already signs of a quickening pace.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there has to be a huge doubt about him reproducing his best form with the ground quickening all the time.
The Sun
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Pity is a level for quickening love.
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In one particularly engaging scene a barrage of news reports on black ‘suspects’ is pasted over the quickening thump of a heartbeat.
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There are already signs of a quickening pace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Companies are finding it hard to cope with the quickening pace of technological change.
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The net effects of the combination of a growing sense of long-term insecurity and the demonstration effects of a fallen fellow autocracy may be those akin to a run on the bank, with agents rushing to cash in their political investments in the regime, quickening the collapse of the regime's authority.
Beijing and the Arab Revolt
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He was hurrying along the pavement, quickening when we could make a yard or two, dawdling in each hiatus.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Companies are finding it hard to cope with the quickening pace of technological change.
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Pity is a level for quickening love.
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Companies are finding it hard to cope with the quickening pace of technological change.
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There's a mixture of trepidation and euphoria to this song as it timidly climbs: the yearning sound of the violin constantly clawing over the quickening beat.
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Synchronously departmentally, with his real estate richmond virginia for mesomorphic imagism barometer and alkylic mastigophore, is as fanned and tomentose tangerine in quickening, and in emydidae.
Rational Review
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THERE is a certain quickening of everything in these fall days,
Gardening by Myself
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Still, the contenders' pulses will be quickening this morning.
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The pace is quickening and the lines of engagement are already drawn up.
Times, Sunday Times
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In one particularly engaging scene a barrage of news reports on black ‘suspects’ is pasted over the quickening thump of a heartbeat.
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Down through the sere leaves comes the first chestnut; others follow in quickening commotion, beginning their long pilgrimage to perfection; a hundred years hence they will stand in bridal white against the blue.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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So in the quickening of the dead to spiritual life, human instrumentality is employed first to prepare the way, and then to turn it to account.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The imaginary quickening, marks the period when our ancestors believed the foetus to become endued with life and soul.
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The Act was hurriedly drawn up in response to quickening deforestation which included new roads being driven into virgin wilderness.
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Once we're into the second hour, Pollack ratchets up the pace a few notches and we notice a quickening of the pulse.
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Pity is a level for quickening love.
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She scrambled away, her heartbeat suddenly quickening in fear.
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God's power and grace are magnified in quickening what to the eye of flesh seems dead and hopeless (Ro 4: 17,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In the period down to the early 1300s, he argued, it was population growth which explained the slow but steady economic expansion - the growth of towns, the process of assarting, and the quickening of activity generally.
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From the fingers in which he'd claimed he could already feel the Art quickening beads of power oozed like ectoplasm, bursting in the air.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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It is the quickening of a city 's pulse.
Times, Sunday Times
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To see it, quickening, life.
The Broken God
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Historically, so far as I can understand, periods of spiritual quickening and revival have gone in hand with God's people coming together to pray.
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At the time he bought Spoetzl Brewery in 1989, the brewer of bock beer founded by German and Czech immigrants some 80 years earlier was just another regional brewer on a quickening slide into oblivion.
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Though Israel be but a remnant amidst many nations after her restoration, yet she shall exercise the same blessed influence in quickening them spiritually that the small imperceptible dew exercises in refreshing the grass (De 32: 2;
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The threshold of the century also seemed to mark a quickening in social awareness.
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After writing deliberately to her friend Emma, she laid down her pen and thought of nothing; and into this dreamfulness a wine passed, filling her veins, suffusing her mind, quickening her soul: and coming whence? out of air, out of the yonder of air.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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There are already signs of a quickening pace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Abortions performed after quickening were an offence under British Common Law, but there were no fixed penalties and the woman having the abortion was not necessarily held responsible.
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God was "manifest in the flesh," by his incarnation and passion therein; and "justified in the Spirit," by a declaration of his acquitment from the sentence of death and all the evils which he underwent, with the reproaches wherewith he was contemptuously used, by his quickening and resurrection from the dead, through the mighty and effectual working of the Spirit of God.
Pneumatologia
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When they had all passed, she went back out on the road and continued onwards, quickening the horses pace to a trot.
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To see it, quickening, life.
The Broken God
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It is the quickening of a city 's pulse.
Times, Sunday Times
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And though he is never less than insightful, it's tempting to divine a special quickening when Heaney writes about his countrymen.
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He speaks to them as believers, as disconsolate, dejected believers, quickening their faith by exhortations; and gives them this promise as a solid foundation of peace and composedness of spirit, which he exhorted them unto.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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It also says recent RBOC announcements about fiber and TV reflect a quickening of interest in the U.S. over the past six months.
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Death, so far from preventing quickening, is the necessary prelude and prognostication of it, just as the seed "is not quickened" into a new sprout with increased produce, "except it die" (except a dissolution of its previous organization takes place).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The central bank said that while growth and inflation were quickening, it was "inadvisable" to raise rates earlier because of a shortage of cash with lenders.
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Then cast away _all_ the loathsome littleness which has rusted and fouled around you, and look at Nature as she literally _is_, in her naked beauty, conceiving and forming, quickening and warming into infinitely varied and lovely life, and then _forming_ once again with the strong and harsh influences of death, pain and decay.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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The threshold of the century also seemed to mark a quickening in social awareness.
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These first sensations, referred to as quickening, often feel like little fluttery movements or gas.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
