enkindle

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

By the ardent love which the Holy Helpers had for Thee, I implore Thee to enkindle in my heart the flame of Thy love, so that I may remain in Thee and Thou in me.

From Mary, Help of Christians And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers: Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year by John J. (John James) Burke

The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

For in the light of later events, the protest of 1837 showed an enkindled soul that in the goodness of time thrilled the land with a second edition of the Declaration of Independence.

From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy

Seven times hope was enkindled in her heart only to be disappointed.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

Though already much suspected, she won the hearts of many men and women among the clergy and laity, and enkindled in them by personal conference, correspondence, and her literary work, the ardour of mystical love.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

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 ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

If we seek the enkindling fire and the moral elevation of high principle and profound conviction and resolute courage, we find a never-ceasing inspiration in the unfaltering earnestness and imperishable deeds of the Pilgrim Fathers.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various

To a friend and near relation, Pierre Robert Olivetanus, the future translator of the Bible, he probably owed both the first impulse toward legal studies and the enkindling of his interest in the Sacred Scriptures.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

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

The evil star of my destiny had got in the ascendant and shot down its sparks upon me, enkindling in me a most singular but at the same time a most pernicious passion.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann