Significados de little quickening en inglés

With a little quickening of his steady heart-beats, he awaited developments.

But Canning, seeing only silence for his pains, said with a little quickening of his tone:

Harriet, who had wandered out idly, felt a little quickening of her pulses as she saw him.

Anna felt a little quickening of excitement as they walked up the flagged path-shecould not look indifferently at the house where Malcolm lived.

Think hard; there must have been at least two little quickenings of the heartbeats in all that time.