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

The towers Infuriate, enkindle From base to summit, In layers, and orange terraces, Against the blue snow haze that drifts down on them from the east.

From Goblins and Pagodas by John Gould Fletcher

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

But when you come upon the empty shells of a raided partridge nest, your sportsman's wrath is enkindled against him for forestalling your gun.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson

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

For in the light of later events, the protest of 1837 showed an enkindled soul that in the goodness of time thrilled the land with a second edition of the Declaration of Independence.

From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy

And when we physic off, in the way above mentioned, how know we, that if, very fortunately, we do not kill, some other disease may not be excited or enkindled?

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

Gentlemen, it is with honest pride and fresh inspiration that we gather once a year to revive our enkindling story.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various

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

The Dependent Fellowship of a school makes these larger, enkindling, and diversifying influences peculiarly possible.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer

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