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- The ceremonies began with the kindling of the council fire,--a rite handed down through unknown centuries of Indian usage. [9]
- The sun himself was pleased to hail that last morning of the great council, and beamed with torrid tolerance upon the ceremony of kindling the greatest of the fires. [9]
- Perhaps this love was kindling a new heroism in him. [5]
- Sometimes a visitor was admitted to this sacramental feat, the dearest old gentleman in the world, with a great, high bridged nose, a slight stoop, a kindling look, and snow white hair, though the top of his head was bald. [9]
- Grant us thy truth to make us free, And kindling hearts that burn for thee, Till all thy living altars claim One holy light, one heavenly flame. [6]
- She only saw troubled depths, lighted by a soul of kindling purpose. [11]
- Now they just touch 'em off with a little dynamite, and they've got a cellar dug and filled up with kindling ready for housekeeping whenever you want it. [8]
- I mean, get to work on your statistics, and don't burn so much kindling getting your fire started. [5]
- I fancy at times that I see something of that starry light which I noticed in the young man's eyes gradually kindling in hers. [6]
- You can hinder these sparks from kindling a destroying fire among your loved ones, and this should be your duty. [10]
- Away through all the telegraphic radiations of the nervous cords flashed the intelligence that the brain was kindling, and must be fed with something or other, or it would burn itself to ashes. [6]
- How had he succeeded, in this fierce gale, in kindling the torch so soon into a powerful flame? [10]
- His voice grew stronger and clearer, as his body responded to the kindling theme in his soul. [4]
- Sometimes a magnificent state galley appeared, on whose deck was Antony, who inspected the hastily equipped fleet to make the newly recruited sailors one of those kindling speeches in which he was a master hard to surpass. [10]
- And at the same time to know that the Demeter, on whom you bestowed the features of the daughter of Archias, was kindling the whole great city of Alexandria with enthusiasm, and drawing countless worshippers to her sanctuary! [10]
- In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke. [2]
- The 18th of October, the anniversary of the battle of Leipsic, was celebrated in Thuringia by kindling bonfires on the highest mountains, but ours was always the largest and brightest far and wide. [10]
- There was another notion that I had about kindling the kitchen fire, that I never carried out. [4]
- But her mother noticed, with a little anxiety, the sometimes flushed face, and the sign of an eager spirit in the kindling eyes, and, as well, the serious air of determination and endurance in her face at unguarded moments. [5]
- Inside of a month they'd have all the woodwork stripped off for kindling, the drainage stopped up, the bathtubs filled with ashes. [9]
- Never had Cleopatra's kindling spirit roused more eager, nay, more passionate sympathy, in any counsellors gathered around her than during this nocturnal meeting, and when at last she paused, the loud acclamations of excited men greeted her. [10]
- And these ruined inhabitants, setting an example to other Russians, went to Moscow thinking only of their own losses but kindling hatred of the foe. [2]
- He rose as he spoke, and looked upon her with such passion kindling in his eyes that he seemed ready for any desperate act. [6]
- Only they haven't got any use for kindling in that country--all gas. [8]
- It is difficult for a calm, deliberate nature like mine to understand an ardent, quickly kindling heart. [10]
- Now the King discovered Sir Hugh, and spoke out with wrathful voice and kindling eye-- "Strip this robber of his false show and stolen estates, and put him under lock and key till I have need of him. [5]
- Presently he laughed--a crackling cackle like new-lighted kindling wood; nothing could have been more inhuman in sound. [11]
- Of course you can make a fire on the hearth by kindling it underneath, but that does not make it right. [4]
- Since this period began there has been, so far as I know, no retrograde movement anywhere, but, besides the material, an intellectual and spiritual kindling the world over, for which history has no sort of parallel. [4]
- Among us, the ardent yearning to hold aloft the new light which the revival of learning is kindling, yonder superior force is struggling to extinguish it. [10]
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