quickeners

The preparations making on every side for the social board that is again to unite friends and kindred; the presents of good cheer passing and repassing, those tokens of regard, and quickeners of kind feelings; the evergreens distributed about houses and churches, emblems of peace and gladness; all these have the most pleasing effect in producing fond associations, and kindling benevolent sympathies.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

The main quickeners of public interest have been the announcement by the Norwegian Helge Ingstad that evidence of Norse occupation around the year 1000 has been found at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, in northern Newfoundland, and the acquisition and publication by Yale University of the Vinland Map, the first known map (pre-Columbian at that) to delineate any part of the American continent.

The Vikings Jones, Gwyn 1967

The injunction to “consort with all men in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship” He further emphasizes, and recognizes such association to be conducive to “union and concord,” which, He affirms, are the establishers of order in the world and the quickeners of nations.

God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

Kingdom; recalls the saying of Jesus to Peter; and assures them that, if they choose to follow Him, He will make them to become “quickeners of mankind.”

God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

The preparations making on every side for the social board that is again to unite friends and kindred -- the presents of good cheer passing and repassing, those tokens of regard and quickeners of kind feelings -- the evergreens distributed about houses and churches, emblems of peace and gladness -- all these have the most pleasing effect in producing fond associations, and kindling benevolent sympathies.

Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

And all along since then there have been messengers of God into whom the same divine breath has been, as it were, without measure breathed, and who have been the quickeners and inspirers of their fellows.

The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Grenville Kleiser 1910

In this day, however, We say: ‘Come ye after Me, that We may make you to become quickeners of mankind.’

The Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854

The preparations making on every side for the social board that is again to unite friends and kindred; the presents of good cheer passing and repassing, those tokens of regard, and quickeners of kind feelings; the evergreens distributed about houses and churches, emblems of peace and gladness; all these have the most pleasing effect in producing fond associations, and kindling benevolent sympathies.

Old Christmas Washington Irving 1821

Even his festive and amatory songs, which are now the mere quickeners of our social moments, or the delights of our drawing-rooms, will then become matters of laborious research and painful collation.

Bracebridge Hall Washington Irving 1821

Even his festive and amatory songs, which are now the mere quickeners of our social moments, or the delights of our drawing-rooms, will then become matters of laborious research and painful collation.

Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821