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
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
It is always through that Word, as we have already shown, that the Spirit of God operates on the sinful heart, enkindling penitence and begetting faith in Christ.
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by M. (Mosheim) Rhodes
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 John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
A name above all names of heroes, higher Than song may sound or heart of man aspire, Rings as the very voice that speaks the sea To-day from all the sea's enkindling lyre.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
