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

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 Carman, Bliss

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

From Peter the Priest by Jókai, Mór

Thus ending, on the shrine he heap'd a spire Of teeming sweets, enkindling sacred fire; Anon he stain'd the thick and spongy sod With wine, in honour of the shepherd-god.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

He had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.

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