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
It is light, sprung from void darkness; power, waked from inertness and impotence; being created from nothing; and the contrast may well enkindle wonder and delight.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
His impetuous nature was all engrossed by this new passion, and he inspired as ardent an affection in the bosom of his loved companion as that which she had enkindled in his own.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
But it was not the enlightened poets and professors, not modern sentimentality, that raised their hearts to this great sacrifice; not these who enkindled this enthusiasm for fatherland.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
Skies like a zone our weary lives enclose, And from our tear-stained eyes a Jihun flows; Hell is a fire enkindled of our griefs; Heaven but a moment's peace, stolen from our woes.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
When a light from within had enkindled the flame,—
From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
M.I.E.E., who had the rare gift of enkindling the imagination of his pupils.
From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
Diana too slept, the sleep of a young exhaustion; and when she woke up, it was to find her being flooded with an upholding, enkindling joy, she knew not how or whence.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
However, the gathering of some of the friends there will be a cause of enkindling the fire of the love of God and the organization of a Bahai meeting will be harmless.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
The one is necessary for the soaring intellect; the other for the rousing and enkindling of tremendous and indomitable motive-power.
From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by A. P. Mukerji
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