Kindled

Examples

• With this unconfessed confession, her letters glowed; it kindled them, from greeting to adieu. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen--by conflagration: but how kindled? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• These four perpendicular ranges of windows admitted air, and, the fire being kindled, heat, or smoke at least, to each of the galleries. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He struck a light, kindled a fire, and thrust the club into it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They (for Mrs. Shaw alighted here) were shown into the drawing-room, in which a fire had only just been kindled. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This she carried to the corner of the bank, and, glancing behind to see if the shutters were all closed, she struck a light, and kindled the furze. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• On that spot had stood the fire she had kindled to attract Wildeve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Birkin went and kindled it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Flushed and kindled thus, he looked nearly as beautiful for a man as she for a woman. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He has a temper, not like ours--one flash and then all over--but the white, still anger that is seldom stirred, but once kindled is hard to quench. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The flames from funeral piles long ago kindled there had shone down upon the lowlands as these were shining now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It vexed me, it kindled my ire, to find that she neither blushed, trembled, nor looked down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But this warm breath on her ears disturbed her again, kindled the old destructive fires. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The apparition had been transient--scarce seen ere gone; but its electric passage left her veins kindled, her soul insurgent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This observation, having a remote tendency to imply that Mr. Smangle was no gentleman, kindled his ire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But this detracted little from its interest, which lay in the excellent fuel it provided for newly kindled fervour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His countenance is kindled in anger against those who have departed from the vow which they have made, and great is the fear of those sons of Belial. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The reddleman struck a light, kindled an inch of tallow-candle which he had brought, and sheltered it with his cap. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Merely by making these researches self-conscious, he has made clearer their goal, given them direction, and kindled them to practical action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The furnace is filled with charcoal, and a lighted coal being introduced before the nozzle, the mass in the interior is soon kindled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Is it, then, a bonfire just kindled? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Altogether the scene had much the appearance of a fortification upon which had been kindled a beacon fire. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You drop your lids; but I saw a kindled spark. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The burning phosphorus kindles the wood of the match, and from the burning match the fire is kindled. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was kindled, and they all stood back to look at the great blue moon of light that hung from Ursula's hand, casting a strange gleam on her face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Presently we saw other torches kindled at some distance behind us, and others on the marshes on the opposite bank of the river. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Editor: Lorna