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Example sentences from the Web for quickening I shifted and put the casing in my pocket, and when I did, I felt a quickening from my stomach to my jaw.
I Shot Bin Laden | Elliot Ackerman| November 16, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Josh Rogin and Eli Lake report on Obama's quickening war campaign.
McCain: Obama to Send New Arms to Syrian Rebels | Josh Rogin, Eli Lake| September 3, 2013| DAILY BEAST
"Quickening " introduces the second room of the exhibit and features a diptych of pregnant women, their faces also ravaged by time.
A Woman in Full | Chloe Malle| February 18, 2010| DAILY BEAST
This, after some pondering, I concluded to represent Pygmalion, as he awaited the quickening of his statue.
Phantastes | George MacDonald
Quickening their own pace, they soon overtook the boy, who saluted them as they passed, in respect for their seeming age.
The Circassian Chief | W.H.G. Kingston
Quickening his step, he marched some yards in advance of his company.
Indeed, he had small time to ponder, for his comrade was quickening his steps, and he had to hasten to reach his side.
Tom Tufton's Travels | Evelyn Everett-Green
He scurried here and there, as need required, gathering force like a machine under the quickening beat of the controlling engine.
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n. The initial signs of fetal life felt by the mother as a result of fetal movement.
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