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

But, perhaps, in no heart there did it enkindle such a fire as in mine.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

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

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

Indeed, that "indignation" which we have seen enkindled by selfishness, though not easily roused, could not always restrain itself in the hearing of small gossip or busy scandal.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall

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

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 excelled all men whom I have ever known in the teaching profession for enkindling among his pupils an ardent zeal in their literary pursuits.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill

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

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

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