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

Put it upon thy hand, my beloved, and thou shalt see it enkindle.

From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

One must have been enkindled by it to describe it.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

Every American will read these works with national pride, and have his better feelings and sentiments enkindled and strengthened.—Western literary Messenger.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

His impetuous nature was all engrossed by this new passion, and he inspired as ardent an affection in the bosom of his loved companion as that which she had enkindled in his own.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

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

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

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

He had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.

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

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

I ask God to augment thy faith, certainty, steadfastness and firmness, that thus thou mayest be a cause for enkindling the fire of the love of God in the hearts of the maid-servants of God.

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá