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

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

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

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

When a light from within had enkindled the flame,—

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan

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

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

Now, as then, there was a curious blending of principle and of personal resentment, but the issue presented was less enkindling than the sentiment of resistance to the aggressions of slavery.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

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 excelled all men whom I have ever known in the teaching profession for enkindling among his pupils an ardent zeal in their literary pursuits.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill