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

But, perhaps, in no heart there did it enkindle such a fire as in mine.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

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

The Lord spake on Sinai out of the midst of the palpable, enkindled fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards

Skies like a zone our weary lives enclose, And from our tear-stained eyes a Jihun flows; Hell is a fire enkindled of our griefs; Heaven but a moment's peace, stolen from our woes.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

The fire in those beautiful eyes enkindled the stern cruelty of the man.

From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

From the first moment of beholding you, I felt love for you enkindling my heart, I became aware of an unknown happiness.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell

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

Obstinate he stands, More raging at remonstrance; and his ire Restrain'd, increases; goading more and more; Restraint itself enkindling more his rage.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

A quiet-voiced man was talking, lauding the exploit of the three embattled Earthmen, skillfully and subtly enkindling enthusiasm, raising wholesome doubts as to the invulnerability of the hated Mercutians.

From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner