enkindling

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

Thus ending, on the shrine he heap'd a spire Of teeming sweets, enkindling sacred fire; Anon he stain'd the thick and spongy sod With wine, in honour of the shepherd-god.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

Attached to arrows and javelins, and in great balls glowing with intensity of flame which water would not quench, it was thrown into the boats of the Russians, enkindling conflagration and exciting terror indescribable.

From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

We then feel how different is our own lonely prayer from the united voice of many hearts; each cheering, strengthening, enkindling the other.

From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Arnold, Thomas

He had the cool judgment, she the enkindling enthusiasm.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady