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Kindling   /kˈɪndlɪŋ/   Listen
Kindling

noun
1.
Material for starting a fire.  Synonyms: punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood.
2.
The act of setting something on fire.  Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, lighting.



Kindle

verb
(past & past part. kindled; pres. part. kindling)
1.
Catch fire.  Synonym: inflame.
2.
Cause to start burning.  Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame.
3.
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).  Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise.  "Raise a smile" , "Evoke sympathy"



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"Kindling" Quotes from Famous Books



... previously displayed many proofs of their loyalty to the Crown and attachment to the royal person. The City consequently made common cause with the Parliament, freely expending both blood and treasure in defence of the national freedom. Who has mot read with kindling cheeks how the bold 'prentices, armed only with spears, withstood a furious charge of the fiery Rupert at the head of his gallant cavaliers? But though prepared to resist the abuse of the royal prerogative, the citizens ...
— The Corporation of London: Its Rights and Privileges • William Ferneley Allen

... it leaves you as it found you or makes another man of you. But this depends entirely on yourself. You must have been prepared by a special education, by a development of the inmost forces of your personality for the work of kindling and releasing what a divinity is able to kindle and release in you. What is brought to you depends on the reception you ...
— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner

... He arranged kindling in the fireplace and touched a match to it. It hadn't occurred to him to ring for Jenkins. None of them wished to be disturbed. Eventually it was the detective who intruded. He strolled in, glanced at them curiously for a moment, then walked to the door of the enclosed ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp

... not know that. When did he say so?' Jerrie asked; with kindling eyes and a quick, sideways turn of her head, of which she had a habit when startled by some ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes

... her distance with a kind of graciousness, but one day in her sixteenth year a certain boor met her under the castle wall as she was returning with sticks for kindling, and was struck by her free and noble carriage; for though she was little more than a child, through all her rags she shone with the grace and splendor not only of her race, but of the wild life she lived on the hills when she was not in her ruins. She was as strong ...
— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon


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