quickening

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• I shifted and put the casing in my pocket, and when I did, I felt a quickening from my stomach to my jaw.

• Josh Rogin and Eli Lake report on Obama's quickening war campaign.

• “They told me to shoot the people or they would shoot me,” Ferjani says with her breath quickening.

• The great downside of all that came when he had to fill the seductive, pulse-quickening profile with presidential substance.

• "Quickening" introduces the second room of the exhibit and features a diptych of pregnant women, their faces also ravaged by time.

• The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.

• Soon, very soon, the river became silver-yellow and over the jungle a quickening silence throbbed from leaf to leaf.

• In his struggle, our hero acquired an almost preturnatural quickening of the memory.

• Michael listened with quickening pulses to the thump of tennis balls in the distance.

• The river, the mountain, the quickening east, swam before his eyes.