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
And this intimate relationship with our Saviour, this habitual communion with Him, will enkindle in our souls the fire of love.
From The Shepherd Of My Soul by Charles Jerome Callan
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
The results are that a love for reading is not enkindled, good readers are not produced.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
One must have been enkindled by it to describe it.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
His wrath A flame enkindled in His eyes of light, Ere He, to ward the threatened blow, gave charge Unto this expedition.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Once again I see her, and she standeth in her pride, With her soft eye enkindled, and her lip Curled with its sweet resentment, like a line Of lifeless coral.
From Fugitive Poetry by Nathaniel Parker Willis
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Time flies rapidly and carries with it, at every moment, a spark of the enkindling fires of love.
From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock
But faith, after all, is but the hand that takes, whilst love is the fellowship of kindred hearts that flash each on the other the enkindling gleam.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
Obstinate he stands, More raging at remonstrance; and his ire Restrain'd, increases; goading more and more; Restraint itself enkindling more his rage.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
"Oh, for the art to petrify it!" he added, with an expressive gesture, the furore of the artist rapidly enkindling.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
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