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
If we seek the enkindling fire and the moral elevation of high principle and profound conviction and resolute courage, we find a never-ceasing inspiration in the unfaltering earnestness and imperishable deeds of the Pilgrim Fathers.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various
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 had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If it be said that what one after all is getting is the Stidger view, it must not be forgotten that the Stidger view is marvellously vital and enkindling.
From Flash-lights from the Seven Seas by Francis John McConnell
