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
Belzebub: The lawful Rights Of subjects to transgress can them inflame, And fires enkindle that the very air Would soon consume.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
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
Wild April, enkindled to laughter and storm by the kiss of the wildest of winds that blow, Calls loud on his brother for witness; his hands that were laden with blossom are sprinkled with snow.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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 sees as no other man sees, and the atmosphere about him is enkindled.
From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
I ask God to augment thy faith, certainty, steadfastness and firmness, that thus thou mayest be a cause for enkindling the fire of the love of God in the hearts of the maid-servants of God.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
However, the gathering of some of the friends there will be a cause of enkindling the fire of the love of God and the organization of a Bahai meeting will be harmless.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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
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
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