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
They’re not so bad if they’re made just right, Tho’ they don’t enkindle our appetite.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Every American will read these works with national pride, and have his better feelings and sentiments enkindled and strengthened.—Western literary Messenger.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
The results are that a love for reading is not enkindled, good readers are not produced.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
And now as the very lowest depths of despair seemed reached, hope dawned once more, faintly enkindled, but still, hope.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
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 ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
What then are you in the sight of God, that you are surrounded by such enkindling darts?
From Peter the Priest by Mór Jókai
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
I ask God to augment thy faith, certainty, steadfastness and firmness, that thus thou mayest be a cause for enkindling the fire of the love of God in the hearts of the maid-servants of God.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
But faith, after all, is but the hand that takes, whilst love is the fellowship of kindred hearts that flash each on the other the enkindling gleam.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
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