love-kindling

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In the first place I want him to see her, and to see her in the most love-kindling, passion-begetting circumstances that can be thought of.

A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884
By her love-kindling breasts and luminous eyes 470

The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832
That love-kindling eye must beam on another, not on me; that graceful form must bless another's arms; not mine!

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777