The soul is the quickener of the body. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The lecture must have been a great quickener of conscience; for they would dare punishment and cheat. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
Interest is a marvellous quickener of the wits, and may be supposed to have left no stone unturned, before assenting to such a sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Let us rather picture to ourselves as the type of fire the benign and beatific solar heat, the quickener and fosterer of all terrestrial life. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
But over and above the value as a mental quickener it is to be placed as a builder of character, and ministering to the development of the moral and even the spiritual life. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
For what we want is not learning, but knowledge; that is the ability to make learning answer its true end as a quickener of intelligence and widener of the intellectual field. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
He feigns to be the quickener of those things which are immortal by nature, to which things life is always present by their very nature; but he does not benevolently quicken those things which required his assistance, that they might live, but leaves them carelessly to fall under the power of death. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
“Straight Path” and as the “quickener of mankind.”. From Wordnik.com. [God Passes By] Reference
There is no such quickener of all a man's natural force as even the lowest forms of faith. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
And truly Mr. Chesterton is invaluable as a quickener and stimulator of the minds of his readers. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
He then passes on to 'an experimental and practical view' of the work of the Spirit as a quickener. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers] Reference
It is a quickener of the intellect, a purifier of the affections, and an instrument of heightening our spiritual aspirations. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Maiden] Reference
By gosh! but it war a quickener -- the hoss kickt till the passun had to hug him round the neck to keep from pitchin 'him over his head. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor"] Reference
After a shadow of a breakfast, consisting of turkey bones and a cup of coffee without sugar, we decamped at an early hour; for hunger is a sharp quickener on a journey. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour on the Prairies.] Reference
Savitri the Sun as quickener or enlivener, Mitra the bright Sun of the morn; Pushan the Sun of the shepherds; Varuna was the sky as all-embracing; Aditya the sky as boundless. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
John Ange had assisted also in cutting down Shakespeare's mulberry tree, of which he had a morsel in his pocket for sale; no doubt a sovereign quickener of literary conception. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Work is the strength of feebleness, the health of sickness, the salvation of men, -- quickener of the senses, foe of sloth, nurse of happiness, a duty in the young and in the old a merit. From Wordnik.com. [Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures] Reference
But love, I think, if somewhat selfish, is a mighty quickener of the understanding, and even though all one's thoughts are upon one object, a fellow-feeling opens one's eyes to the signs elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Carette of Sark] Reference
But abstinence is a wonderful quickener of apprehension; and for teaching the true value of the good things of this life, there are few recipes more effectual than a voyage in the forecastle of a cruising man-of-war. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter] Reference
Men adored the orb of day as the grandest object which nature presented to them, as the great quickener of all things upon the earth, the cause of germination and growth, of fruitage and harvest, the dispenser to man of ten thousand blessings, the sustainer of his life and health and happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
Thou quickener of life, thou hast prepared a crown for Thy martyrs. ". From Wordnik.com. [Modern Persia] Reference
John Ange had assisted also in cutting down Shakspeare’s mulberry tree, of which he had a morsel in his pocket for sale; no doubt a sovereign quickener of literary conception. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Nilus, the quickener of field and fold!. From Wordnik.com. [The Suppliants] Reference
The spirit-quickener of the flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Sacred Song] Reference
Nilus, the quickener of field and fold!. From Wordnik.com. [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference
He was a quickener of the public conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
Hailing me sire, all-quickener, lord and king!. From Wordnik.com. [The Masque of the Elements] Reference
Welcome quickener of flourish'd flowers sheen. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
Welcome, quickener of flourish'd flowers 'sheen. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
The law is the quickener of the human conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Power From On High] Reference
Arch-quickener of Existence, gild these crests. From Wordnik.com. [The Masque of the Elements] Reference
"Straight Path" and as the "quickener of mankind". From Wordnik.com. [The Kitáb-i-Aqdas] Reference
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