enkindling

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

In this poem we find the sympathy and the grace of Gray and Wordsworth with a greater warmth and a glow that is enkindling.

From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang

The one is necessary for the soaring intellect; the other for the rousing and enkindling of tremendous and indomitable motive-power.

From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by Mukerji, A. P.

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 Rhodes, M. (Mosheim)

To a friend and near relation, Pierre Robert Olivetanus, the future translator of the Bible, he probably owed both the first impulse toward legal studies and the enkindling of his interest in the Sacred Scriptures.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn