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
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 John Keats
In this poem we find the sympathy and the grace of Gray and Wordsworth with a greater warmth and a glow that is enkindling.
From Oliver Goldsmith by E. S. Lang Buckland
To a friend and near relation, Pierre Robert Olivetanus, the future translator of the Bible, he probably owed both the first impulse toward legal studies and the enkindling of his interest in the Sacred Scriptures.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird
He excelled all men whom I have ever known in the teaching profession for enkindling among his pupils an ardent zeal in their literary pursuits.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
