enkindling
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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
At forty-seven, that second youth, the Indian summer of the emotions, which lingers like autumnal sunshine in the lives of most men and of a few women, was again enkindling his heart.
From Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
We then feel how different is our own lonely prayer from the united voice of many hearts; each cheering, strengthening, enkindling the other.
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
But never, since bright earth was born In rapture of the enkindling morn, Might godlike wrath and sunlike scorn That was and is And shall be while false weeds are worn Find word like his.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Now that, Margaret, was the moment when the mighty spark of love fell upon my soul, and it will gather strength, and, enkindling flame after flame, will continue to burn there for ever.
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
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