Words similar to quickening

Example sentences for: quickening

How can you use “quickening” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And none will hear the postman's knockWithout a quickening of the heart.
Yet when it is there it is unmistakable, inspiring our awe, quickening our memory—.
My usual response to receiving my packet of mail is not Auden's "quickening of the heart."
Not much "quickening of the heart" there.
The odds against getting a "quickening of the heart" by any of these media are high.