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

Can thine eyes enkindle so suddenly another's heart, and yet shed no warmth on thine own?

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

The fire in those beautiful eyes enkindled the stern cruelty of the man.

From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Why has century-long contact with other civilizations never enkindled the feeblest flame?

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith

He sees as no other man sees, and the atmosphere about him is enkindled.

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

Seven times hope was enkindled in her heart only to be disappointed.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

The one is necessary for the soaring intellect; the other for the rousing and enkindling of tremendous and indomitable motive-power.

From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by A. P. Mukerji

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

Now, as then, there was a curious blending of principle and of personal resentment, but the issue presented was less enkindling than the sentiment of resistance to the aggressions of slavery.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

I well remember him, and heard his voice In vigorous prime, beneath the Temple-Arch, His brow enkindling with its holy themes.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney