enkindle

How To Use enkindle In A Sentence

• The ancients told those stories around the camp fires and those stories grew by the flame enkindled in the hearer's hearts; transforming them into story tellers too. Happy Valentines Day, -XOX, The New Body of Christ:
• The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart. Chapter 16
• The Church is one of those living forces: she is alive with the love enkindled by the Spirit of Christ. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
• Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics which concern only the interests of eternity; the men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a commonplace censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
• Also, there is little doubt in my mind that you will handle the presentation of the gift with a sensitivity that will insure dignity to, and enkindle joy in, the person receiving your token of appreciation.
• Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
• That you would enkindle joy and hope in our hearts. and turn us into candles burning brightly in the winds of life.
• It is bound to evoke the sympathy and enkindle the imagination of every modern reader.
• Of the whole crowd, including Gay, the speaker in his blue shirt, with his head thrown back against a pitch-black bough of the cedar, and his face enkindled from the fire of his enthusiasm, seemed the one masculine and dominating intelligence. The Miller of Old Church
• Quiet returns, but the poor wretch turns over and over in her heart the fantasies born of her idle listening; her reflections only fan more fiercely the flame enkindled by her chatter. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany