enkindle

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Enkindle this dear earth that bore us, In the hour of peril purified.

From Poems of the Great War Published on the Behalf of the Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund by Various

Again, perchance, In coming along, it pulls from out the air Some certain bodies, which by their own blows Enkindle its velocity.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Enkindle, en-kin′dl, v.t. to kindle or set on fire: to inflame: to rouse.—p.adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Enkindle thou his lamp and fructify his garden, so that thou mayest become his real son and worthy of the favors and gift of the Almighty.”***

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Enkindle the fire of the love of God in the heart with such intensity that thou mayest become a flame of fire and a luminous lamp of guidance.

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá