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

The first thing to enkindle the senses of the Sailor was the smell of the fresh country earth.

From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Did I not protest against it, With the bold fervour of enkindled zeal, I were the pander of a love, like incest; Betrayer of my trust, my function's shame, And thy eternal soul's worst enemy.

From The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Robert Jephson

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

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

Seven times hope was enkindled in her heart only to be disappointed.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

She passed up the stairs after the others, her arms filled with Angelica's wraps, and her plain young face enkindled with sympathy and compassion.

From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

M.I.E.E., who had the rare gift of enkindling the imagination of his pupils.

From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose

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

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

Now, as then, there was a curious blending of principle and of personal resentment, but the issue presented was less enkindling than the sentiment of resistance to the aggressions of slavery.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine