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How to use quickened in a sentence

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Her heart had quickened the moment he had turned those dark eyes on her and even now her breathing was uneven.
Down the back straight for the last time the pace quickened again and I started to row in rhythm with the horse.
His breathing quickened, his breaths shallow and shaky, as if each one might be his last.
He bustled Ouija Board into fifth soon after the start and held his position until the field quickened down the back stretch.
Unconsciously, he quickened his pace a fraction and caught himself clenching and unclenching his fists as he walked.
Although she would not look at him, she was always near at hand, so close that he felt he could feel the quickened beating of her heart.
When I came upon the deli, its sign glowing like a beacon in the brumous night, a slight twinge of anticipation quickened my pace.
Research quickened in the 1980s as better measuring techniques emerged, notably gas chromatograph-mass spectrometers.
My whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
He could hear the burble of a small stream and quickened his pace, grinning when he saw the water.
The pace quickened to a canter as the trail began to open and they rode into a valley.
Despite her exhaustion, she quickened her pace, eager to be out in the open air.
Two factors quickened the pace of change over the course of American history.
The beeping quickened as he watched the electrical current surge higher and higher with a sigh.
It was little wonder the advert quickened pulses among members of Edinburgh's close-knit financial community.
Some with the greatest access of luster equal the colors of painters, others the fervid flames of sulphur, or fires quickened with oil.
He dug his heels into his horse's flanks, and the mare quickened her pace until they reached the gates.
Her face crimsoning with fury, Isabella suddenly turned away from her friend and quickened her pace down the road.
Once the large community of developmental biologists working on the worm became involved, the pace quickened.
The result is a beautiful book whose elegiac tone is quickened by the writer's own warmth and wit.
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The dormant bodies of the great slugs glowed perceptibly brighter as they fed, and the pulsations of opalescence quickened.
But time and excess, that have quickened his grosser senses, have blunted his imagination.
She was rewarded by a slap that half stunned her, and Olmec quickened his pace to a shambling run.
As it lay so glutenous, the earth mother was also quickened to show sympathy.
The Punic Wars not only quickened but they deepened and purified Roman patriotism.
Smoke quickened, and was soon at the rear of the nearest bunch of stampeders.
Dim indeed was the light, but his sight was keen, and quickened by the imminence of danger.
John Mellish quickened his pace, and followed steeve Hargraves across the little garden to the threshold of the door.
His views of things might have been considerably quickened by billeting upon his household a few of the ironsides.
No answer was returned, and nisus, who was leading, quickened his pace to gain the shelter of the forest.
Then the attention quickened, as every bar of the kermess chorus brought them nearer to the moment for Valentine's coming.
They were all quickened with the fervid spirit of enterprise and adventure.
Here Sir Donald's curiosity is quickened, but he refrains from question or comment.
Her delicious chatter, and her museful sparkle in listening, equally quickened every sense of life.
But anon, as the narrative warmed and quickened, the danger was well overpast.
Now, she quickened her pace, anxious for the plunge that should set the term to sorrow.
I felt at once that he had succeeded in some machination against me, and with ominous misgivings quickened my steps.
The dramatic germ contained in the fabliau and quickened by the mystery produces the profane drama.
There are men whose wits are supernaturally quickened by danger.
I quickened the pace of the burra, and was soon close at its side.
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