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Definition of Kindles
1. kindle [v] - See also: kindle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kindles
Literary usage of Kindles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"That devotion to his mistress kindles in his mind a general tenderness, which
exerts itself towards every object as well as his fair one. ..."
2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"All that appears on the surface is that seven years later, in 1688, he kindles
another European conflagration, which after raging for nine years ..."
3. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Drydens's by Plutarch (1885)
"... emulation kindles and inflames their courage; thus he thought, brave men,
provoking one another to noble actions, would prove most serviceable and most ..."
4. The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the by David Irving (1810)
"The science which teaches the rights of man, the eloquence that kindles the spirit
of freedom, had for ages been buried with the other monuments of the ..."
5. Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery: A Narrative by Filson Young, Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin Dunraven (1906)
"... THE FIRE kindles THE next step in Columbus's career was a move to Porto Santo,
which probably took place very soon after his marriage—that is to say, ..."
6. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"... something which kindles a flame of charity so as to make the beholder pardon
from that moment, whoever had offended him, leaving him unable to utter in ..."
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