kindling

• His was of Heaven's kindling, and no small part   Of that pure fire is His. —  Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals
• He remembered Winna as a kindling, a bundle of legs, hands, and blond hair racing around the village, always bothering him for stories of the wider world. —  THE BLOOD KNIGHT
• But the kindling is a bit wet, and it would take some more effort to get a fire going. —  Foreign Policy In Focus
• If nobody else had been in it--and many were--Rodin was there to heat the atmosphere, his name kindling a flame of criticism long before his work was reached. —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• It is illuminating, kindling, the work of the Holy Ghost. —  Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion

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