quicken
verb (used with object)
to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten.
were quickening
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past progressiveof quicken.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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With each instant her perceptive powers were quickening.
From The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy
The consciousness of life was in him and the desire to continue and to experience and to know were quickening and increasing.
From Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
Without, forests were quickening, branch by branch, as though a green flame smoldered from one bough to another.
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
The Butterflies were quickening their stroke every moment, and consequently were continuing to increase the distance between the two boats.
From All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake A Sequel to "The Boat Club" by Oliver Optic
At my brother's words his pendulous nether lip had stiffened, and now his pale blue eyes were quickening with hope and vitality.
From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Horace Annesley Vachell
