quickens

Each terse term quickens the imagination as it suggests what is to follow.

Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

As a consequence of this arrangement, hydrogen is evolved from the water, and has the effect of reducing any oxide or other detrimental compound of the metal; in other words, it "quickens" and prevents "sickening" of the fluid metal, and consequent "flouring" and loss.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

There's just something about that Voice that animates, "quickens" us.

One Cʘsmos 2010

It is thus, the power of the Spirit that "quickens" or gives life, as the Lord said in a revelation to Joseph Smith that the comforter, or Holy Ghost, "is the promise which I give unto you of Eternal Life" (D&C 88: 4) or that the "power of my Spirit quickeneth all things" (D&C 33: 16).

By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog 2009

Unless the pace of job growth quickens, he said, "we really face the risk of a lost generation" of young people unable to get work.

IMF Chief Warns Against 'Currency Wars' The Huffington Post News Team 2010

This anniversary quickens our desire for human connection and a hope for the future that is unstoppable.

Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson: From Memory To Hope Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson 2011

Shamsie's wry humor infuses and quickens the narrative.

Kartography by Kamila Shamsie: Book summary 2010

This anniversary quickens our desire for human connection and a hope for the future that is unstoppable.

Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson: From Memory To Hope Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson 2011

Yet at the same time, my heart quickens with dismay.

Excerpt: Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold 2009

Romance quickens and controls as does nothing else, and because of this it is not only a means but an end in itself.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010