But in tending them, she had been also feeding her own yearning, quickening her own hope.
Suffering and fortitude had etherealized the face back to youth, and that mysterious expectancy which had possessed her for days had touched the curves of her mouth to a wonderful tenderness, the softness of her cheek to a quickening bloom.
Apparently they had gathered their strength into a ball, for they went with energy, double-quickening over the snow.
Adversity came to the insouciant grey battery, adversity quickening to disaster.
Lastly, Be oft in the use of quickening means: live, if you can attain it, under a quickening, zealous minister.
Live, if you can possibly, under a lively, quickening ministry, and in the company of serious, lively christians.
To this end, be never without God's quickening motives (before mentioned) on your minds.
You have only that light that will show you the shell, and the dead letter, but not the soul, and quickening sense, of any practical holy truth.
Such will lead them in safe paths, and be still preserving them, and promoting the most necessary parts of knowledge, and quickening them to holy practice, which is the end of all.
A meeting of a dead minister and a dead people, is like a place of graves: and though it be a lamentable thing to hear a man speak without any life, of life eternal, yet God can concur to the quickening of a soul.
We have studied the most quickening words, we have preached with tears in the most earnest manner, and yet we cannot make them feel!
His providence fitteth all conditions to their good; but especially helpeth them by seasonable, quickening afflictions.
Unsanctified men may be easilier turned to infidelity; for they never felt the renewed, quickening work of faith; nor were ever brought by it to the love of God, and a holy and heavenly mind and life.
Let the great motives of holy zeal and diligence be set home and printed on your hearts:[599] and often read them over in some quickening books, that you may remember them, and be affected with them.
That ever, in the night calm, when the sheep Upon their grassy beds lay couched in sleep, The quickening spindle drew a trustier line.
Ages roll on as the reptiles give place to higher animal organisation developed in carnivora, the quickening blood warms, and then as the sovereign of all the grades of life, erect and gifted with reason, comes man.
In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun, that only calls forth life, but gives it not again.
It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was that quickeninghumor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses.
Accompanying the growth of the scientific spirit and in part stimulated by it, more distinctly religious and philosophical influences are at work quickening the desire for wider and deeper fellowship.
If it had not been for commerce, the cheapening and quickening of communication could never have been carried out.
Whatsoever quickening of romance might have crept into such lives had long yielded to atrophy.
Tell me something fresh," said Farrow, quickening with grateful memories of many a pheasant and brace of rabbits reposing a brief space in his modest larder.
The drama, under the quickening patronage of Louis XIII.
But the most recent and perhaps the most remarkable example of foreign influence quickening French literature to make it freshly fruitful, is supplied in the great romanticizing movement under the lead of Victor Hugo.
In the present case what should be likened to that excretion, and whence and what is the quickening principle which answers to the principle from the male?
This ache, this restlessness, this quickening sting, Prove me no torpid and inanimate thing, Prove me of Him who is of life the Spring.
The glad earth knew his feet; her mould Trembled with quickening thrills, and stirred.
But now spring had come; the glorious sun had chased away the snow and the biting frost, and the poor chorister felt its genial rays quickening the life-blood in his veins, and awakening his cramped muscles to action.
The steam-cocks and the force-pump, as also the bellows used for the purpose of quickening combustion in the furnace, were worked off the same crank-axle.
His energy imparted itself to others, quickening and influencing them as strong characters always do—flowing down into theirs, and bringing out their best powers.
The Guardian hopes you will take a most active part in this quickening of mankind.
The Guardian will pray for the quickening of the teaching work in Alaska.
Presently she brightened, turning to Mackenzie with quickening eyes.
Mackenzie stood a little apart, thinking his own swift-running thoughts, quickening under the leap of his own eager blood.
June 1st going over to September 16th, the fetus being in the uterus over twelve months, and nine months after quickening was felt.
The rush rose up with its pointed spear The flag, with its falchion broad; The dock uplifted its shield unawed, As her voice rung over the quickening sod: "Awaken!
We may also wish to give our subject further elements of appeal through what may be suggested beyond the telling, through the melody and rhythm of the words, or through a quickening of the sense of the beautiful.
The second sentence is V1, until the close when it becomes V2 through the quickening of memories that have been emotional.
Further, as in the quickening of sensations our ideas become more tangible and real, writers who employ other literary forms will find that their style gains clarity and distinction by a like appeal to sensation when possible.
Small wonder, then, that the young Anglo-Saxons felt the quickening of this new life and turned naturally to the cultured and progressive Normans as their literary models.
Religiously, all the churches of England felt the quickening power of that tremendous spiritual revival known as Methodism, under the preaching of Wesley and Whitefield.
He never had kissed a maiden; he never had felt the quickening elixir of a soft breast pressed against his own.
She turned back to her work, her mind stirred out of its sluggish rut, the swirl of her new thoughts quickening in her blood.
