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
They’re not so bad if they’re made just right, Tho’ they don’t enkindle our appetite.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
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
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
The results are that a love for reading is not enkindled, good readers are not produced.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
One must have been enkindled by it to describe it.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
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
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
I well remember him, and heard his voice In vigorous prime, beneath the Temple-Arch, His brow enkindling with its holy themes.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney
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
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