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
I feel glad that any sparks of mine have served to enkindle the cassia, nard and frankincense which so prodigally enrich your own altar.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
With the sympathies of the world thus enkindled, there are none who would wish to withhold our rights.
From Unfettered A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
Why has century-long contact with other civilizations never enkindled the feeblest flame?
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
For in the light of later events, the protest of 1837 showed an enkindled soul that in the goodness of time thrilled the land with a second edition of the Declaration of Independence.
From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy
Skies like a zone our weary lives enclose, And from our tear-stained eyes a Jihun flows; Hell is a fire enkindled of our griefs; Heaven but a moment's peace, stolen from our woes.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
He ran the match crackling along the underside of the table and fell to enkindling his cigar.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
The Dependent Fellowship of a school makes these larger, enkindling, and diversifying influences peculiarly possible.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
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
"Oh, for the art to petrify it!" he added, with an expressive gesture, the furore of the artist rapidly enkindling.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
M.I.E.E., who had the rare gift of enkindling the imagination of his pupils.
From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
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