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
It is always through that Word, as we have already shown, that the Spirit of God operates on the sinful heart, enkindling penitence and begetting faith in Christ.
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by M. (Mosheim) Rhodes
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
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
The Dependent Fellowship of a school makes these larger, enkindling, and diversifying influences peculiarly possible.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
