It quickens the perceptions, intensifies the sensibilities, and redoubles the memory.
If eating mushrooms quickens the fancy, the gathering of them sharpens the eye and trains the mind to a scientific accuracy in detail that quite balances any tendency toward a gustato-poetic extravagance.
It so quickens as to raise from death to life, and it gives therefore to man a sort of new and divine nature, so that he can dwell in Christ and Christ in him.
As the sun by its genial influence quickens the vegetable seed, so it is the office of the Holy Spirit, in whom is life, and who resides in the temple of man, to quicken that which is heavenly.
The fire quickens rapidly as the carbines come into action.
He is but the instrument of bearing; it is her energy that quickens his conceiving.
There is a continual changing and refining production about our truest friends--the same thing in a woman that a man can love in the highest--that quickens us always to higher vision and deeper humanity.
They are not of consequence compared to the driving impulse which one man or woman in a hundred follows, to write to one who has said something that quickens the heart.
The use of certain organs increases supply, and the use of others quickens waste; a balance should be maintained between the two.
It quickens the circulation and the respiration, aids digestion, exercises a great number of muscles, both of limbs and trunk of body, strengthens the ankles, and incidentally the nerves.
Spirit, who regenerates the soul and quickens our mortal bodies; 5.
His stilling of the tempest tells of Him as the Peace-bringer for troubled hearts; and His raising of the dead proclaims Him as the Life-giver, who quickens with the true life all who believe on Him.
The veil sharpens attention, stimulates curiosity, quickens effort, and so becomes positively subsidiary to the great purpose of revelation for which the parable is spoken.
The French witquickens in him more than in any English writer the sturdy sense and shrewdness of our national disposition, corrects its extravagance, and relieves its somewhat ponderous morality.
Droned the glinting acres, "In his soul, mayhap, Something like a wheat-dream Quickens into shape!
Quickens to rapture, and a rosy flame Is the old signal of awakening; Thus in a mystery I understand The deepest meaning of your lovely name -- How it will be in that perpetual Spring!
A plentiful subsistence, therefore, it has been concluded, relaxes, and a scanty one quickenstheir industry.
It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.
We hope to find mercy ourselves, because of our mercy; and this hope quickens our merits without detracting from the merit of our charity.
But fulness of life and the sap which quickens it cannot be replaced by any dissimulation.
They all stand still, and he shoulders his heavy stick and quickens his pace.
Fulness of life and the sap which quickens it cannot be replaced by any dissimulation.
Further, as the soul quickens the body so does God quicken the soul; hence it is written (Deut.
There shall be seen the pride that quickens thirst, which makes the Scot and the Englishman mad, so that neither can keep within his own bounds.
The honor of Spain” is still a motto which quickensevery pulse.
Seen from a point just outside of the entrance, it looks like a garden, and one quickens one’s pace with a feeling of pleased curiosity.
There never was such a thunder-storm of a play: it quickens and exhilarates the sense of the reader as the sense of a healthy man or boy is quickened and exhilarated by the rolling music of a tempest and the leaping exultation of its flames.
Blades turns his head for half a second, and cries to his men as he quickens up to his final spurt.
He sets his face determinedly, and quickens his stroke.
God guards it, God quickens it, and God and angels will rejoice with you when one day you bring your golden harvest home.
Let a man in any age go forth with the fire of God in him; and the force he wields, the mastery he wins, the new life he quickens in a nation, in a world, pours silent contempt on gold.
It melts all selfish separations and appropriations, as sun warmth the bonds of winter, and quickens in the universal human heart the glow and circulation of the spring.
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