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
Put it upon thy hand, my beloved, and thou shalt see it enkindle.
From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Indeed, that "indignation" which we have seen enkindled by selfishness, though not easily roused, could not always restrain itself in the hearing of small gossip or busy scandal.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
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
But it was not the enlightened poets and professors, not modern sentimentality, that raised their hearts to this great sacrifice; not these who enkindled this enthusiasm for fatherland.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
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
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Obstinate he stands, More raging at remonstrance; and his ire Restrain'd, increases; goading more and more; Restraint itself enkindling more his rage.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
But never, since bright earth was born In rapture of the enkindling morn, Might godlike wrath and sunlike scorn That was and is And shall be while false weeds are worn Find word like his.
From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne
These men saw with exultation the enkindling of a spirit of liberty in the Iberian Peninsula.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
It is always through that Word, as we have already shown, that the Spirit of God operates on the sinful heart, enkindling penitence and begetting faith in Christ.
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by M. (Mosheim) Rhodes
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