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  • noun Plural form of quickening.

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  • The act of creating life and nourishing it is so similar to the creative process, and even men and women, like myself who have never been pregnant, understand those first quickenings of an idea, the laborious delivery of the final product, and the nourishment and protection required once the work of art has inhaled its first breath.

    Stephanie Green: Paintings That Celebrate Motherhood, Birthing Ideas Stephanie Green 2011

  • The act of creating life and nourishing it is so similar to the creative process, and even men and women, like myself who have never been pregnant, understand those first quickenings of an idea, the laborious delivery of the final product, and the nourishment and protection required once the work of art has inhaled its first breath.

    Stephanie Green: Paintings That Celebrate Motherhood, Birthing Ideas Stephanie Green 2011

  • If you are interested, please read more at www. quickenings.com/heroinesjourney

    Lotta Als��n: Why Women Need to Make Money to Change the World 2009

  • Little quickenings of romance stirred in his heart.

    Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave 1918

  • Those sweet hopes quell whose least me quickenings lift,

    The Bugler's First Communion 1918

  • Almost coincident with these quickenings of which I have spoken was the consciousness of a hunger stronger than the craving for bread and meat, and I began to meditate on my ignorance, on the utter inadequacy and insufficiency of my early education, on my neglect of the new learning during the years that had passed since I left Harvard.

    A Far Country — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909

  • I think it was then I first felt the quickenings of a new life to be born in travail and pain ....

    A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • Almost coincident with these quickenings of which I have spoken was the consciousness of a hunger stronger than the craving for bread and meat, and I began to meditate on my ignorance, on the utter inadequacy and insufficiency of my early education, on my neglect of the new learning during the years that had passed since I left Harvard.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Almost coincident with these quickenings of which I have spoken was the consciousness of a hunger stronger than the craving for bread and meat, and I began to meditate on my ignorance, on the utter inadequacy and insufficiency of my early education, on my neglect of the new learning during the years that had passed since I left Harvard.

    A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • I think it was then I first felt the quickenings of a new life to be born in travail and pain ....

    A Far Country — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909

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  • A midwife might say to a colleague 'I had two quickenings today.' She would mean that two of her ante-natal patients had reported feeling the first movements of their unborn babies. This often happens about 20 weeks into the pregnancy.

    August 23, 2011