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

Where men form and express opinions, variety of opinion will be sure to spring up; discussion will elicit sympathy and enkindle debate.

From The Religion of Politics A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842. by Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) Gannett

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

He had enkindled a fire, but could not quench the flame.

From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Henry S. Spalding

He had never before felt the hallowed sensations that then enkindled in him; never had such pure heavenly enjoyment been revealed to him: he was over-happy.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck

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

Prudentius assures us how much his devotion was enkindled, as he gazed upon the sufferings of martyrs, so feelingly depicted around their tombs and in their churches.

From A Treatise on Relics by John Calvin

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

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

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

He had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton