enkindle
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His father gave him lessons about it but then stopped: “He could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Minardi fought to enkindle the Catholic faith in youth — and he never gave up for the 70 years he was Ozzano’s parish priest, until coronavirus killed him at 94.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 8, 2020
Friendly and exuberant “Let your wisdom enkindle others” “Looking forward for an everlasting scientific relationship!”
From Nature ● Dec. 13, 2016
That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Where men form and express opinions, variety of opinion will be sure to spring up; discussion will elicit sympathy and enkindle debate.
From The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842. by Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) Gannett
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
He had enkindled a fire, but could not quench the flame.
From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Henry S. Spalding
He had never before felt the hallowed sensations that then enkindled in him; never had such pure heavenly enjoyment been revealed to him: he was over-happy.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
She passed up the stairs after the others, her arms filled with Angelica's wraps, and her plain young face enkindled with sympathy and compassion.
From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
And his had been the touch which had enkindled it.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
From the first moment of beholding you, I felt love for you enkindling my heart, I became aware of an unknown happiness.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
A name above all names of heroes, higher Than song may sound or heart of man aspire, Rings as the very voice that speaks the sea To-day from all the sea's enkindling lyre.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A quiet-voiced man was talking, lauding the exploit of the three embattled Earthmen, skillfully and subtly enkindling enthusiasm, raising wholesome doubts as to the invulnerability of the hated Mercutians.
From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner
Plutarch's Lives of Ancient Heroes has perhaps been more influential than any other uninspired book in invigorating genius and in enkindling a passion for great achievements.
From Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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