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The settings, enkindled by Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, are sketched against a lyrical, abstract background.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2022

Though already much suspected, she won the hearts of many men and women among the clergy and laity, and enkindled in them by personal conference, correspondence, and her literary work, the ardour of mystical love.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

He had enkindled a fire, but could not quench the flame.

From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Henry S. Spalding

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

So full of magnetic fire she had never been disciplined to control; had love been sooner enkindled, she would but sooner have leaped into its flame, whether it meant warmth or destruction.

From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon




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