1 A strong note of pride reinforcing the gravity of the priest's voice made Stephen's heart quicken in response.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 2 As she was telling her terrible story, the eastern sky began to quicken, and everything became more and more clear.
3 The very sharpness of the contrast used to quicken his sense of pleasure.
4 As she drew near the path that led down through the bare trees into the creek bottom where the Shantytown settlement was, she clucked to the horse to quicken his speed.
5 Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds.
6 But the storm-clouds, turning white and then black, moved down so quickly that they had to quicken their pace to get home before the rain.
7 It needs sheer sensuality even to purify and quicken the mind.
8 Thereat the rest quicken their speed.
9 The crash of a loaded branch falling far off in the woods reverberated like a musket-shot, and once a fox barked, and Mattie shrank closer to Ethan, and quickened her steps.
10 Many had moved for no reason at all, except that the restless blood of pioneering fathers still quickened in their veins.
11 When she thought of the dull times of the past year, with the days going by one very much like another, life seemed to have quickened to an incredible speed.
12 His lips traveled to her wrist and she knew he must feel the leap of her pulse as her heart quickened and she tried to draw back her hand.
13 Prissy quickened her gait infinitesimally and Scarlett went back into the house.
14 As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings.
15 He found Gerty as he had left her, simple, undemanding and devoted, but with a quickened intelligence of the heart which he recognized without seeking to explain it.