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Sentences ending with quickened

She started forwards again with a new understanding, her footsteps quickened. [11]
His blood quickened. [11]

Short sentences using quickened

The horses quickened their pace. [11]
It quickened his steps imperceptibly. [11]
Impulse quickened his footsteps now. [11]

More example sentences with the word quickened in them

Like a wanderer, who, after a long journey, sees his home in the distance, he quickened his pace. [10]
Melted rubies it was indeed, of the sort which had quickened the blood of many a royal gathering at Blois and Amboise and Chenonceaux,--the distilled peasant song of the Loire valley. [9]
His own mind was in a perpetual state of exaltation produced by the stirring scenes in which he had taken a part, and the quickened life of the time in which he lived. [3]
But Ruth looked up, and there was a light in her eyes that quickened Phil's pulse. [5]
The music quickened, tripping in ecstasy, to change by subtle phrases into themes of exquisite suffering hitherto unexperienced. [9]
As she was too poor to have any fear of them, she did not alter her course (which, indeed, she could not have done without going a long way round), but quickened her pace a little, and kept straight on. [12]
He was nowhere to be seen in the groups which sang and gestured in the light of the many coloured fires, though once or twice Fleda's quickened ear detected his voice, exulting, in the chorus of song. [11]
In the brief time in which he had seen her and this other man, Austen's quickened perceptions had detected tacit understanding, community of interest, a habit of thought and manner,--in short, a common language, unknown to him, between the two. [9]
The same quickened thought of the time which led him to dispute the dogma of the Church, opened his mind to the facts which contradicted the dogmas of the Faculty. [3]
His pulse quickened, then his body stiffened with the effort at self-control. [11]
Hope quickened at the vision of hope, the seats of judgment themselves were filled with radiance, and rumour, cowered and fled like the spirit of night. [9]
As she neared the doorway of the cottage, a few heavy drops began to fall, and, in spite of her bitter trouble, she quickened her footsteps, fearing that her grandfather had come back, to find the house empty and no light or supper ready. [11]
Suddenly the Seigneur swerved towards the chapel and quickened his footsteps, the others but a step behind. [11]
Mr. Duncan muttered something, and quickened his gait a little on the steps that led to the gallery. [9]
They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat. [5]
After that a silence, save for the notes of answering birds quickened by the song, the minister's horse nibbling at the bushes. [9]
With quickened breath, she gazed upward to the face, yet she would gladly have closed her eyes and lost her hearing, that she might neither see it nor catch the voices from the tree. [10]
All at once she felt sure that he read her real story, and something very like anger quickened in her. [11]
Barbara, still with quickened breathing, then put the question how she could know this; and Adrian, with a significant smile, replied that her heart would tell her, and if it should ever err--of this he was certain--the Emperor Charles. [10]
The Queen's eye quickened as she saw him, and she remarked with secret pleasure the figure and bearing of this young captain of the Huguenots. [11]
Henrica's over-excited senses perceived the light tread of the satin shoes and the rustle of the silk train, long before the approaching form had reached the room, and with quickened breathing, she sat erect. [10]
Nay, in this our quickened life we feel that all the battles from earliest time to our own day, where Right and Wrong have grappled, are but one great battle, varied with brief pauses or hasty bivouacs upon the field of conflict. [6]
They turned into one of the narrower streets, and we quickened our steps. [9]
Brown trotted after it, saying, "Whoa, whoa, there's a good fellow;" but whenever he got near enough to chance a jump for the buggy, the horse quickened its pace a little and defeated him. [5]
He guessed who it was, and his blood quickened at the guessing. [11]
It was true, in a measure, that Honora quickened to life everything she touched, and her arrival in Wayland Square was invariably greeted with shouts of joy. [9]
His step quickened imperceptibly to himself, and he nodded to or shook hands with half a dozen people before he reached Piccadilly. [11]
Love had steeled his will and quickened the pace of his steed, and the gratitude of answering affection, the reward she could bestow, should be withheld no longer. [10]
His voice quickened, his face lowered. [11]
At sight of him, Fleda's blood quickened, but in indignation and in no other sense. [11]
Presently she gave him another sip of brandy, and he quickened his steps, speaking to himself the while. [11]
When Trafford questioned Hester Orval more deeply of her life there, the unearthly look quickened in her eyes, and she said: "Oh, nothing, nothing is real here, but suffering; perhaps it is all a dream, but it has changed me, changed me. [11]
Something had quickened her into a glowing life. [11]
The blood in her face, the look in her eye quickened also. [11]
And the anomaly he presented in what might be called the vehemence of his advocacy of an outworn orthodoxy, in his occupation of the pulpit of St. John's, had quickened at once her curiosity and antagonism. [9]
His pulses quickened, he flushed with the soft shock of it. [11]
But to Alice he could pour out his wealth of affection, quickened to all the world by this great love, for he knew that her happiness would be in his happiness. [4]
She seemed to have forgotten his presence, her pace quickened as she turned into a gate and flew up a flight of dirty stone steps, broken and sagging. [9]
Janet, whom love had quickened, had a swift perception of this. [9]
To them a funeral or a wedding, a riot or a vociferous band, a dog-fight or a strike, were alike in this, that they quickened feelings which carried them out of themselves, gave them a sense of intoxication. [11]
Seeing, however, a friendly and familiar smile on the face of the other, he quickened his steps, and, holding out his hand with a heartiness for which none of his Persian acquaintances would have given him credit, exclaimed in Egyptian: "Can I believe my eyes? [10]
As she stepped forward towards the door she heard a voice within the house, and she quickened her footsteps. [11]
He quickened his footsteps, and presently came to a house on which had been freshly painted those rough, staring pictures of "accidents by flood and field," which Mecca pilgrims paint on their houses like hatchments, on their safe return--proclamation of their prestige. [11]
The Lost One's eyes wavered a second, as though their owner had not the courage to abide the effect of his action, then they quickened to a point of steadiness, as a lash suddenly knots for a crack in the hand of a postilion. [11]
With a new-formed determination he quickened his walk, ruling his face to a sort of forced gaiety, lest any one should think his moodiness strange. [11]
Then they quickened, darkened, to shine with intelligence--bewilderment--memory--and sudden wonderful joy. [13]
The pain in Cynthia's heart, so long benumbed, quickened when she saw it. [9]
I was so certain of this that I quickened my pace and got up with alacrity every time I tumbled down amid the slippery leaves and catching roots, and hurried on. [4]
When her ear caught threats or reproaches levelled against her noble brother, she quickened her pace, but she could not escape her anxiety concerning what would happen at the departure after sunrise on the morrow, should the malcontents obtain supremacy. [10]
He quickened his camel and drew ahead of Lacey. [11]
She had slipped behind a statue as quickly as possible, and he could scarcely have recognised her, for the gloaming had already merged into partial darkness; but the mere thought of having been so near him quickened the pulsation of her heart. [10]
The people parted at the door to let her pass, and she quickened her step, gained the carriage at last, and drove away --seemingly leaving at her back a buzz of comment. [9]
His hands clenched at his sides, his head came up stiffly and stayed, and with quickened footsteps he marched rigidly forward towards the Manor. [11]
That all succeeded as she had planned quickened her pulses, and made her heart still warmer to Angele, who, now that all was over, and her Huguenot lover had gone his mysterious ways, seemed lost in a troubled reverie. [11]
To end the anguish of his struggle he quickened his steps, so that he found he was reaching home almost at a run. [8]
The squadron overtook and passed the infantry and the battery--which had also quickened their pace--rode down a hill, and passing through an empty and deserted village again ascended. [2]
The books of adventure, poetry, history, and mythology she had read with her mother had quickened her mind, sharpened her intuition, had made her temperament still more sensitive--and her heart less peaceful. [11]

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