Word: quickening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese faces on the lawn did not change. Chinese pulses did not quicken. The applause was polite...
...Portugall, along the river Tagus, & about Lisbon, certaine it is, that when the westwind blowes, the mares set up their tailes, and turne them full against it, and so conceive that genitall aire in steed of naturall seed: in such sort, as they become great withall, and quicken in their time, & bring forth foles as swift as the wind, but they live not above three yeres...
Throughout a long life of deliberate sensuality, his diaries reveal a continual preoccupation with moral uplift. Constantly obtaining money on dubious pretenses, he published important books that nobody else would touch, did much to quicken British philosophic thought...