enkindling
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He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
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
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
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
These men saw with exultation the enkindling of a spirit of liberty in the Iberian Peninsula.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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