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quickenings
n. (plural of quickening English)
Usage examples of "quickenings".
But as I walked across the jarred and cratered road and sensed the usual quickenings of irony and aggression I also sensed something further I sensed that my weight, my mass, my meat was being appraised, registered, scaled, not with lust, no, but with a carnal speculation I had never felt before.
Faia rummaged carefully, and found Beliseth again as an infant, round and pink and dimpled, and even deeper, located Sahedre as she concentrated on the movement in her belly, the first delightful quickenings of life.