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
Frame the whole as if 'Twere to enkindle the strong tower of our Inveterate enemies.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Seven times hope was enkindled in her heart only to be disappointed.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
But the young man's pride was touched and his wrath enkindled.
From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
It extinguished in midnight gloom the light of civilization and science, which had just been enkindled on those dreary shores.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
And his had been the touch which had enkindled it.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
I ask God to augment thy faith, certainty, steadfastness and firmness, that thus thou mayest be a cause for enkindling the fire of the love of God in the hearts of the maid-servants of God.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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
However, the gathering of some of the friends there will be a cause of enkindling the fire of the love of God and the organization of a Bahai meeting will be harmless.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
If it be said that what one after all is getting is the Stidger view, it must not be forgotten that the Stidger view is marvellously vital and enkindling.
From Flash-lights from the Seven Seas by Francis John McConnell
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