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

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

Time flies rapidly and carries with it, at every moment, a spark of the enkindling fires of love.

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

I ask God to augment thy faith, certainty, steadfastness and firmness, that thus thou mayest be a cause for enkindling the fire of the love of God in the hearts of the maid-servants of God.

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The one is necessary for the soaring intellect; the other for the rousing and enkindling of tremendous and indomitable motive-power.

From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by Mukerji, A. P.