enkindle
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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
It forms but a small part of the body, and has done mighty evil: as the helm badly directed causes the wreck of a fine ship, and as a spark may enkindle a forest.
From Fraternal Charity by Benôit Valuy
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
And when we physic off, in the way above mentioned, how know we, that if, very fortunately, we do not kill, some other disease may not be excited or enkindled?
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
And by the third brook, which is an Infused Heat, the heights of the Will are enkindled with quiet love and adorned with great riches.
From Ruysbroeck by Evelyn Underhill
With the sympathies of the world thus enkindled, there are none who would wish to withhold our rights.
From Unfettered A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
It extinguished in midnight gloom the light of civilization and science, which had just been enkindled on those dreary shores.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
All the night long in trooping squares The sentry stars go by, The silent and unwearying hosts That bear man company, And with their pure enkindling fires Keep vigils lone and high.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
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
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
Gentlemen, it is with honest pride and fresh inspiration that we gather once a year to revive our enkindling story.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various
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