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

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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles

But faith, after all, is but the hand that takes, whilst love is the fellowship of kindred hearts that flash each on the other the enkindling gleam.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

These men saw with exultation the enkindling of a spirit of liberty in the Iberian Peninsula.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

He had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.

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