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

Never did the most pathetic sermon on the Passion enkindle such heartfelt love, or evoke such salutary resolutions, as have been produced by the silent spectacle of our Savior hanging on the cross.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Though already much suspected, she won the hearts of many men and women among the clergy and laity, and enkindled in them by personal conference, correspondence, and her literary work, the ardour of mystical love.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

Every American will read these works with national pride, and have his better feelings and sentiments enkindled and strengthened.—Western literary Messenger.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

For in the light of later events, the protest of 1837 showed an enkindled soul that in the goodness of time thrilled the land with a second edition of the Declaration of Independence.

From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy

But when you come upon the empty shells of a raided partridge nest, your sportsman's wrath is enkindled against him for forestalling your gun.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

During forty years Giotto responded to every demand, and made himself suffice for every call, worked in nearly every important city of Italy, enkindling everywhere he went the new light of art.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Diana too slept, the sleep of a young exhaustion; and when she woke up, it was to find her being flooded with an upholding, enkindling joy, she knew not how or whence.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Attached to arrows and javelins, and in great balls glowing with intensity of flame which water would not quench, it was thrown into the boats of the Russians, enkindling conflagration and exciting terror indescribable.

From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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