quickener

—The Decemberists Helpful tempo quickener—short but sweet.

Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006

—The Decemberists Helpful tempo quickener—short but sweet.

Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006

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.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Eros is child of Aphrodite, minister of beautiful children, inciter of human souls towards the supernal beauty or quickener of an already existing impulse thither.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Interest is a marvellous quickener of the wits, and may be supposed to have left no stone unturned, before assenting to such a sacrifice.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

The lecture must have been a great quickener of conscience; for they would dare punishment and cheat

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

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.

On the Firing Line in Education Adoniram Judson Ladd

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.

Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock

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.

One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus

But the roar of the next wave as it came bursting in, splashing them from head to foot where they sat, was a wonderful quickener to their movements, and away they scrambled through the pitchy blackness, clinging like limpets to the rough side of the cavern as they felt their feet slide upon the treacherous rocks, and thought of the unseen gulf below.

Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various