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

To a friend and near relation, Pierre Robert Olivetanus, the future translator of the Bible, he probably owed both the first impulse toward legal studies and the enkindling of his interest in the Sacred Scriptures.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

In this poem we find the sympathy and the grace of Gray and Wordsworth with a greater warmth and a glow that is enkindling.

From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang

Diana too slept, the sleep of a young exhaustion; and when she woke up, it was to find her being flooded with an upholding, enkindling joy, she knew not how or whence.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.