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 can produce innumerable isolated acts, which may or may not be beneficent, but it cannot enkindle the “ordered charity.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
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
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
But the young man's pride was touched and his wrath enkindled.
From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
So full of magnetic fire she had never been disciplined to control; had love been sooner enkindled, she would but sooner have leaped into its flame, whether it meant warmth or destruction.
From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
He had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All the night long in trooping squares The sentry stars go by, The silent and unwearying hosts That bear man company, And with their pure enkindling fires Keep vigils lone and high.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
I well remember him, and heard his voice In vigorous prime, beneath the Temple-Arch, His brow enkindling with its holy themes.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney
In this poem we find the sympathy and the grace of Gray and Wordsworth with a greater warmth and a glow that is enkindling.
From Oliver Goldsmith by E. S. Lang Buckland
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