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
"If it is any point requiring reflection," observed Dupin, as he forbore to enkindle the wick, "we shall examine it to better purpose in the dark."
From Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories by Joseph Lewis French
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Once again I see her, and she standeth in her pride, With her soft eye enkindled, and her lip Curled with its sweet resentment, like a line Of lifeless coral.
From Fugitive Poetry by Nathaniel Parker Willis
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
But we bend our knees in prayer before Thee and humbly beseech Thee, remit Thy great wrath enkindled against our sins.
From The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] by Anonymous
And by the third brook, which is an Infused Heat, the heights of the Will are enkindled with quiet love and adorned with great riches.
From Ruysbroeck by Evelyn Underhill
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
From the first moment of beholding you, I felt love for you enkindling my heart, I became aware of an unknown happiness.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
But faith, after all, is but the hand that takes, whilst love is the fellowship of kindred hearts that flash each on the other the enkindling gleam.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
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
The evil star of my destiny had got in the ascendant and shot down its sparks upon me, enkindling in me a most singular but at the same time a most pernicious passion.
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
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