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

Giles, white, with burning eyes, looked straight into his father's eyes, rage, wounded pride, the sudden revolt of a love that had just been enkindled anew in him, distorting his face.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

It must not be inferred that we had lost the zeal enkindled during the dark hours in Atlanta.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

Why has century-long contact with other civilizations never enkindled the feeblest flame?

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith

Once again I see her, and she standeth in her pride, With her soft eye enkindled, and her lip Curled with its sweet resentment, like a line Of lifeless coral.

From Fugitive Poetry by Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

We then feel how different is our own lonely prayer from the united voice of many hearts; each cheering, strengthening, enkindling the other.

From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

Time flies rapidly and carries with it, at every moment, a spark of the enkindling fires of love.

From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock

The one is necessary for the soaring intellect; the other for the rousing and enkindling of tremendous and indomitable motive-power.

From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by A. P. Mukerji

A name above all names of heroes, higher Than song may sound or heart of man aspire, Rings as the very voice that speaks the sea To-day from all the sea's enkindling lyre.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne