enkindling

Example Sentences

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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

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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

What then are you in the sight of God, that you are surrounded by such enkindling darts?

From Peter the Priest by Jókai, Mór

He had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Attached to arrows and javelins, and in great balls glowing with intensity of flame which water would not quench, it was thrown into the boats of the Russians, enkindling conflagration and exciting terror indescribable.

From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)