enkindling

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

Have they not achieved a union beyond what two separate minds can ever know, like Tristan and Isolde, the ill-fated couple in Richard Wagner’s eponymous 1859 opera: “Un-named, free from parting, new perception, new enkindling; ever endless self-knowing; warmly glowing heart, love’s utmost joy!”

“The global Islamophobia and the recent discrimination of Muslims with impunity by powerful nations are enkindling fires of hatred in many countries against Islam,” Bo says.

"Oh, for the art to petrify it!" he added, with an expressive gesture, the furore of the artist rapidly enkindling.

We suppose his efforts rather to be directed toward the enkindling of such a large love of liberty, and such international sympathy among all people who are really free, as shall make a giant league of opinion, whose thunders shall mutter their anathemas against oppression, in every parliament and every congress; and by congruity of action, as well as congruity of impulse, fix the bounds to oppression, and fright every tyrant from advance—if not from security.