Meanings of quicken even in English

It helps the memory, and would quicken even Helvetian dullness.

Objection 1: It would seem that the effect of subsequent Penance is to quicken even dead works, those, namely, that were not done in charity.

Doesn't it quicken even your slow Yankee blood to pass the walls that heard Jefferson at his greatest, that held Patrick Henry, that covered Washington?

My footsteps quickened even more.

My pulse quickened even more.

I suspect the deacon's conscience had been quickened even more than mine respecting my duty to that mission class by Mr. Minging's address.

(4) And these feelings are no weak spurs to quicken even a dull spirit to hazard all for glory's sake and fatherland.