unquickened
- a word derived from quicken.
Example Sentences
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Alice heard it with a heart unquickened; and when, an hour after, the flushed, triumphant Mr. Stocks arrived in person to claim the meed of success, he was greeted with a painful carelessness.
From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John
Granting that there was a womanly intelligence there, as yet unquickened, he was not so irrational as to imagine he could jostle it into illumining activity in one short hour, or day, or week.
From A Face Illumined by Roe, Edward Payson
She saw gross, ugly movements in her mistress, she saw a clayey, inert, unquickened flesh, that reminded her of the great prehistoric lizards.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Her Acta Sanctorum may be read from end to end with a dry eye and an unquickened pulse.'
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Ranald was surprised to find himself shaking hands with the woman he had once loved, with unquickened pulse and nerves cool and steady.
From The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa by Connor, Ralph
