The quickening of seed that will become ripe grain. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
THERE is a certain quickening of everything in these fall days. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening by Myself] Reference
Some religions believe that life starts at "quickening," some at live birth, and some at conception. From Wordnik.com. [Clay Farris Naff: What Is The Role Of Theology In The Abortion Debate?] Reference
During this trimester, you’ll probably feel your baby move for the first time an experience called quickening. From Wordnik.com. [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference
Most likely to be caused by "quickening," or else by tight dress, bad air, over-exertion, or other unhealthy living. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Do some research - the concept of "quickening" has been a legal issue for a millennia. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Today this point of "quickening" has been moved back to shortly after implantation of the embryo. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Rescue] Reference
"quickening," Augustine was limited to Fourth Century science. From Wordnik.com. [National Review Online] Reference
A house, or, by 'quickening' a waste place, that is, bringing it under cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference
In his first year Bercow granted 25 and the pace is quickening. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker John Bercow and raft of new MPs making Commons a livelier place] Reference
But the quickening pace of events swept all other concerns aside. From Wordnik.com. [How To Help Gorbachev] Reference
His pencil scratched the paper, his pace quickening as the steam faded. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunter] Reference
"Let's wait," said Betty, quickening her pace, "and let Will tell the story!". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
"We're all just floating in space," he said, sensing a quickening of the air. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Star] Reference
Then the engine screamed, throbbed, and with quickening speed rushed out into the night. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"You." he said as a quickening, cascading twirl of girls started to surround him like a funnel cloud. From Wordnik.com. [February 1964] Reference
So he was customarily compelled to leave them on the floor, while he modulated his own quickening pulse. From Wordnik.com. [Deadheading] Reference
And the senses are bombarded with information that flows from every direction at an ever-quickening pace. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Information?] Reference
A movie that understands the pulse-quickening value of peril and betrayal, but prizes loyalty and forgiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Next Stop Narnia] Reference
Across town at GM, the longtime laggard in the launch department, quickening the pace has become an obsession. From Wordnik.com. [Quick-Change Artists] Reference
Firms are restructuring, entrepreneurs are creating new businesses at a quickening pace, productivity is rising. From Wordnik.com. [On the Agenda] Reference
The loss of members from American synagogues is quickening because of this crisis but it is not caused by this crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Joe the Congregant] Reference
The result of her labors was the formation of sixteen Unions and a general quickening and awakening to temperance truth. From Wordnik.com. [Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada] Reference
If performed prior to quickening, abortions were legal for most of the century, and while dangerous, largely free of stigma. From Wordnik.com. [Twitter Gets Way Personal] Reference
The march toward greater automation in IT environments has been underway for some time, but virtualization is quickening the pace. From Wordnik.com. [Top 5 network management investments] Reference
In West Berlin one night recently, the quickening pace of change was visible along the Kurfurstendamm, the city's famed thoroughfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Wealth Of A Nation] Reference
However, Reagan will also be remembered for his restoration of American confidence that resulted in a quickening tempo of domestic life. From Wordnik.com. [REAGAN'S ECHO IN HISTORY] Reference
Turning back, he noted the quickening pace as the tailwind sped him over the fields, back toward the farm, the hangar and the grass strip. From Wordnik.com. [The Knife Edge] Reference
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