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  • The fear rose as the flames were rekindled and leapt higher… and the impulse to fight took over when Mhyra reached for Tovon.
  • Howbeit when they should come to sit downe at dinner, there kindled a strife betwixt the said two bishops about their places, bicause the bishop of London, for that he had beene ordeined long before the archbishop, and therefore not onelie as deane to the see of Canturburie, but also by reason of prioritie, pretended to haue the vpper seat. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
  • When he got back, we rekindled our relationship and have now been together for five years. Times, Sunday Times
  • _merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • A leaning toward chemistry and chemical engineering was no doubt kindled in some way by a Mickey Mouse comic strip.
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  • In November the pair rekindled their romance and were pictured out and about and looking loved-up again. The Sun
  • The ancients told those stories around the camp fires and those stories grew by the flame enkindled in the hearer's hearts; transforming them into story tellers too. Happy Valentines Day, -XOX, The New Body of Christ:
  • Lunete mounts the palfrey which is brought without delay, and, as they ride, she tells her how she had been accused and charged with treason, and how the pyre was already kindled upon which she was to be laid, and how he had come to help her in just the moment of her need. Four Arthurian Romances
  • The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart. Chapter 16
  • When he came nearest to the scientific spirit of his time, in zealous observations of the life of nature, he characteristically concentrated on the sequence of various bird notes at daybreak and the flight of moths as the stars of twilight were kindled. Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 - Presentation Speech
  • Last night I built the first fire I've kindled in years and it came back to me, that instinctual pull of watching the flames catch, of stirring the embers, and poking the logs until they burn brightly.
  • In Robert's mind the name rekindled hopes that had died away. The Proud Prince
  • She says:'I rekindled an old romance with a younger man two years ago and we are still seeing each other. The Sun
  • They are the sort of people who have their interest rekindled by 6 Music. Times, Sunday Times
  • The said Cassekey also set up his abode in their tent; kept all his tribe away from the woman and child and aged man; kindled fires; caused, as a delicate attention, the only hog remaining on the wreck to be killed and brought to them for a midnight meal; and, in short, comported himself so hospitably, and with such kindly consideration toward the broad-brimmed Quaker, that we are inclined to account him the better-bred fellow of the two, in spite of his scant costume of horse-tail and belt of straw. Stories of Childhood
  • I rekindled the fire to prepare for the morning breakfast.
  • It is a firm belief that this inner light can be kindled to brilliance through yogic practices.
  • For if the dead appear to the living mainly in the hours of darkness, it seems not unnatural to imagine that the bright points of light which then bespangle the canopy of heaven are either the souls of the departed or fires kindled by them in their home aloft. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
  • A boy from the Jewish Quarter's religious youth movement kindled the Chanukah lights in large cans on an embankment near the gate.
  • All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars.
  • The scowl of the opposing parties, the blanched cheeks, the knit brows, and the grinding teeth, not pretermitting the deadly gleams that shoot from their kindled eyes, are ornaments which a plain battle between factions cannot boast, but which, notwithstanding, are very suitable to the fierce and gloomy silence of that premeditated vengeance which burns with such intensity in the heart, and scorches up the vitals into such a thirst for blood. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
  • Love feelings could be rekindled now you can say what you want from a relationship, instead of hoping a partner will guess. The Sun
  • They kindled the fire of hatred in the young and innocent minds of the new generation against a particular section of their countrymen.
  • Red-hot coals provide uniform heat for quite some time and can be easily rekindled whenever needed.
  • The couple had known each other 15 years ago but rekindled their relationship over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
  • I never knew such large fish existed, and any thoughts of forgetting about these fish were re-kindled by a school project on the bluefin tuna and its worldwide fisheries at the age of nine or so.
  • No fire that can be kindled upon the altar of speech can relume the radiant spark that perished yesterday. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
  • Then my anger shall be kindled, ... and I will hide my face from them -- an announcement of the withdrawal of the divine favor and protection of which the Shekinah was the symbol and pledge. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • She took refuge in every-day affairs; she told him of the giddy doings that kept her occupied from morning till night, of Cinders (the mention of whose name kindled a reminiscent gleam in the Frenchman's eyes), of the coming birthday dance, which he must promise to attend. The Rocks of Valpre
  • They were built on ground which abounded, doubtless, as all that region now does, in bitumen or naphtha, which is easily kindled, and which burns with great intensity. Barnes New Testament Notes
  • In the future (well, the 1990s ... according to the story) the recently dead can be reanimated, "rekindled" to use the term in the novella. Robert Silverberg's "The World Inside": Overpopulation, Sex and Sensibility
  • And once Wonder Woman and Bionic Woman--and I actually just saw Linday Wagner in Palm Springs and we used to be really great friends and we kind of rekindled our friendship when she came to hear me sing in Palm Springs. Fabio Periera: Ten Minutes with: Lynda Carter
  • All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars.
  • After the bitterness had gone, they forged a new friendship, but the flames of romance were not rekindled.
  • And as fires kindled dispersedly in a dry forest and rustling laurel-thickets, or foaming rivers where they leap swift and loud from high hills, and speed to sea each in his own path of havoc; as fiercely the two, Aeneas and Turnus, dash amid the battle; now, now wrath surges within them, and unconquerable hearts are torn; now in all their might they rush upon wounds. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • They promptly take the ball and throw it in a fire they have kindled in a 55-gallon barrel.
  • I came in and kindled a fire in the stove.
  • The relationship was rekindled this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The setting sun kindled the sky.
  • We had such a great time, it rekindled our creative relationship so we decided to make another album. The Sun
  • The firestorm kicked off by Rand Paul’s remarks has again rekindled the debate about the relationship between libertarianism, federalism, and efforts to combat racial discrimination. The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism
  • Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.
  • For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
  • Barely controlled fury kindled in Kayline's eyes.
  • Close to where I had hung my hammock, Rufino kindled a fire to toast coca while his son reduced cecropia leaves to ash and prepared the mortar and pestle. One River
  • John's baptismal water may put out some of the fires we have kindled ourselves.
  • I sipped, swallowed, glimpsed the peat bog plashing white legs of the kilted clan Macallan as the whisky kindled in my chest. 'The Last Werewolf'
  • The Church is one of those living forces: she is alive with the love enkindled by the Spirit of Christ. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • But we traded the option of blissful ignorance for lucidity with every stone tool knapped, every fire kindled, and with every novel technology teased out of nature. Must Reading for Christmas
  • The second world war kindled his enthusiasm for politics.
  • The course rekindled my interest in learning and enabled me to really grow our business. Times, Sunday Times
  • The hill was lightly talcumed with snow, glittering with crystal-like blindness, giving the impression of frigid formality; the December afternoon sun, sitting low in a field of blue, kindled a promising evening.
  • The relationship was rekindled this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was after Lt. Arnie Wolff died in the line of duty in August 2006 that the idea rekindled and a group took on the project. The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines
  • He kindled at the very sight of books.
  • In November the pair rekindled their romance and were pictured out and about and looking loved-up again. The Sun
  • When he got back, we rekindled our relationship and have now been together for five years. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pair have recently rekindled their romance but this might be taking things a bit too fast. The Sun
  • The second world war kindled his enthusiasm for politics.
  • Soon hundreds were camping out in the empty Casino and the closed exhibit halls where they kindled small fires to keep warm.
  • Childhood sweethearts Tony Baynham and Kathy Hammond have rekindled their love after 20 years thanks to a chance meeting in cyberspace.
  • Spiritual life in believers is kindled from the life itself of God Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • As Zerin rekindled the fire, the sun came up, covering the cold earth with its rays.
  • Lemon rekindled the fire and they dried off quickly.
  • Rekindled and re-leased with a shove, the chandelier began to swing again, describing a larger arc this time.
  • And it rekindled Hollywood's interest. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pair have recently rekindled their romance but this might be taking things a bit too fast. The Sun
  • Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics which concern only the interests of eternity; the men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a commonplace censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
  • Has this exhibition rekindled the memories of those early days? The Sun
  • Mr. Bantling, who was of rather a slow and a discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him by the influence of a shining, challenging eye and a kind of bandbox freshness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted. The Portrait of a Lady
  • OK, 5 one-and-a-half and everybody else in the whole gym class if 5 foot 3 and even taller it hurts truth is, I hadn't thought about that for years but then a recent phone call rekindled all those fears Ballad of a Ballgame
  • Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.
  • By evening every fire in the kingdom would be extinguished, only to be rekindled from a ceremonial fire lit by a druid. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • Although he desired, in some sense, to obtain what he called eternal life, the "joy thereof" had not been kindled in his cold, calculating heart. The Parables of Our Lord
  • A signal fire, kindled with the lens of Piggy's glasses, is established on the mountain to call passing ships to their rescue while shelters are constructed.
  • That thought kindled a tiny spark of hope in Sorsha.
  • A leaning toward chemistry and chemical engineering was no doubt kindled in some way by a Mickey Mouse comic strip.
  • The parcel goes in, the smouldering logs are raked back over it, and the fire is rekindled with fresh wood.
  • When he had heard Shibli Bagarag to a close, the countenance of Shagpat waxed fiery, as it had been flame kindled by travellers at night in a thorny bramble-bush, and he ruffled, and heaved, and was as when dense jungle-growths are stirred violently by the near approach of a wild animal in his fury, shouting in short breaths, 'A barber! The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1
  • The setting sun kindled the sky.
  • This wick which I have kindled is short, and will not last; but, so long as it does, it throws on them the commentary of a contemporary light. Angels & Ministers
  • The fire that had been kindled in my skull leaked and spread into my veins, arteries, every pore, and traveled the length of my body, infusing all with heat.
  • Hope of escape kindled within as the terror of bondage loosened.
  • When others spoke they seemed harsh and uncouth by contrast; and if they gainsaid the voice, anger was kindled in the hearts of those under the spell. May 26th, 2009
  • But the rekindled relationship will not be played out on TV. The Sun
  • The black fire that Goud had kindled in the 1960s now blazes with a new maturity, a new candour.
  • By evening every fire in the kingdom would be extinguished, only to be rekindled from a ceremonial fire lit by a druid. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • In the afternoon, when the sun relented, the men returned to the fields and she went back to the big kitchen, rekindled the log fire and prepared the evening meal.
  • The trial has rekindled painful memories of the war.
  • That and the high price of oil have rekindled inflation and widened the government's budget deficit.
  • Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers STURZGEBURT, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents — in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations. Ulysses
  • The Molokans also had kindled a blaze behind the corner of the barraque, and now its glow was licking the yellow boards of the structure until they seemed almost to be liquescent, to be about to dissolve and flow over the ground in a golden stream. Through Russia
  • When he got back, we rekindled our relationship and have now been together for five years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.
  • The seraph is the divine messenger, and he brings a coal from the altar, and lays that upon the prophet's lips, which is but the symbolical way of saying that the man who is conscious of his own evil will find in himself a blessed despair of being his own healer, and that he has to turn to the divine source, the vision of which has kindled the consciousness, to find there that which will take away the evil. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
  • This however, was a performance that rekindled memories of all the bad old days.
  • A leaning toward chemistry and chemical engineering was no doubt kindled in some way by a Mickey Mouse comic strip.
  • The relationship was rekindled this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The awareness created among the backward communities has kindled their interest in conditions in other parts of the world.
  • This woe is the moral of that judicial law (Exod.xxi. 33, 34-22: 6), that he who opened the pit, and kindled the fire, was accountable for all the damage that ensued. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • Maybe we waited too long, killed the flames of lust before they even kindled.
  • While she was gone, Dexter rekindled the fire using the wood stacked in a pile under the edge of canvas that covered the small area where they had slept.
  • Raoul, who was a tireless spirit, kindled a fire, and commenced knocking down the nuts of the corozo palm, that hung in clusters over our heads. The Rifle Rangers
  • Six years later safety fears were rekindled when another fire broke out in the storage and garage area.
  • We had such a great time, it rekindled our creative relationship so we decided to make another album. The Sun
  • Heraclius in the warres againste the Persians: when he had gotten the victory, and thei perceiued them selues to be defrauded by him: kindled with the angre of the villanye thei had done vnto them, by the counsell and persuasion of Mahomet (who tooke vppon him to be their captaine) thei forsoke Heraclius. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • We watched as the fire slowly kindled.
  • Ben Brantley's article on Sir Ian McKellen rekindled many memories.
  • You have to keep the fire burning and this has definitely rekindled our spark. The Sun
  • Two days before she kindled, she got loose and spent the day in the woods near the barns.
  • I read, and kindled; nor found I what to do to those deaf and dead, of whom myself had been, a pestilent person, a bitter and a blind bawler against those writings, which are honied with the honey of heaven, and lightsome with Thine own light: and I was consumed with zeal at the enemies of this Scripture. The Confessions
  • My interest in flying was first kindled in 2000 when our school toured the air force museum in Pretoria.
  • One Irish artist reaping the benefits of our rekindled love affair with decorative excess is Clodagh Hendy.
  • Since the Living History Society rekindled the mummers tradition some five years ago the youngsters involved have gone from strength to strength as well as raise funds for various charities.
  • The couple had known each other 15 years ago but rekindled their relationship over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jim kindled the Easter fire, a blue flame at first barely visible above the silver rim of a white bowl.
  • On the 26th of Auguft, about twilight, a fmall bonfire was kindled in King-ftreet, Bofton, and fur - rounded only by a few boys and children; but when the fireward endeavoured to extinguilh it, he was whifpered, by an unknown perfon, to defiil; which he not re - garding, received a blow on his A Collection of interesting, authentic papers relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America [microform] : shewing the causes and progress of that misunderstanding from 1764 to 1775
  • Of the whole crowd, including Gay, the speaker in his blue shirt, with his head thrown back against a pitch-black bough of the cedar, and his face enkindled from the fire of his enthusiasm, seemed the one masculine and dominating intelligence. The Miller of Old Church
  • Quiet returns, but the poor wretch turns over and over in her heart the fantasies born of her idle listening; her reflections only fan more fiercely the flame enkindled by her chatter. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • My heartfelt thanks to you, dear teacher. On the voyage of life, you have kindled the light of hope for me. What you have done enriches my mind and broadens my view. On this day I honour you sincerely.
  • Fire was speedily obtained from one of their guns, and Hobbie was already advancing to the pile with a kindled brand, when the surly face of the robber, and the muzzle of a musquetoon, were partially shown at a shot-hole which flanked the entrance. The Black Dwarf
  • And a scenario of collapsing yields, a rekindled refi boom, overheated mortgage finance and the resulting massive Credit creation (dollar claims inflation) feeding a dollar collapse is not a remote possibility.
  • She kindled to the blend of feudalism and democracy.
  • By evening every fire in the kingdom would be extinguished, only to be rekindled from a ceremonial fire lit by a druid. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • The death of Prince Rainier of Monaco last week rekindled memories of his and Princess Grace's visit to her ancestral home outside Newport in the 1960's.
  • You have to keep the fire burning and this has definitely rekindled our spark. The Sun
  • During this holiday, another tradition has all the fires in the village extinguished, and the ‘Need fire’ is kindled.
  • Many survived, and blessed Captain Southcombe, not at first cordially — for the man yet remains to be discovered who is grateful to his doctor — but gradually more and more, and with that healthy action of the human bosom which is called expectoration, whenever grateful memories were rekindled by the smell of tar. Springhaven
  • Who like a mother, as he grows to years of sense and observation, and the curiosity is kindled, which is only a cry for light and teaching, can so answer the cry and so teach as to make the mysteries of life and truth to be for ever associated for him with all the sacred associations of home and his own mother, and not with the talk of the groom or the dirty-minded schoolboy? The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
  • The first object on which the blacksmith's eyes rested kindled him with indignation, and recalled mortifying memories. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus
  • The second world war kindled his enthusiasm for politics.
  • By such books as his (and Ségur's) the imagination is kindled so fiercely that it illuminates our own natures, our own bestialities, which we still practice on the weak and pacific. Boney
  • For fire feeds upon nothing but what is moist, for nothing is combustible but what is so; for when the fire is kindled, the air turns to smoke, and the terrene and grosser parts remain in the ashes. Symposiacs
  • The spark kindled the dry leaves in a few minutes.
  • This done, they set fire to the wood, the heat was communicated to the shist, which soon kindled, since it contains coal and sulphur. The Mysterious Island
  • Soon hundreds were camping out in the empty Casino and the closed exhibit halls where they kindled small fires to keep warm.
  • It is this bent nose that kindled our curiosity and prompted our investigation.
  • The teacher's praise kindled a spark of hope inside her.
  • The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds
  • These visits enkindled in his beautiful soul such flames of Divine love that their ardour imparted itself even to his body and took from the snow on which he walked its wonted cold; for it is related that the servant who accompanied him in these nightly excursions, having to walk through the snow, suffered much from the cold. Archive 2009-09-01
  • A love of poetry was kindled in him by his mother.
  • a kindled fire
  • His name kindled the flame of that passion for freedom which made the cause of the North triumphant, and there was awe mingled with the love they bore his memory. Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on
  • Frenche and Italien tonge, had not thought skorne to bestowe their time aboute the translacion therof, and that the Emperours Maiestie that now is, vouched saulfe to receiue the presentacion therof, at the Frenche translatours hande, as well appereth in his booke: it kindled me againe, vpon regard of mine owne profite, and other mennes moe, to bring that to some good pointe, that earst I had begonne. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • The second world war kindled his enthusiasm for politics.
  • The dried grass of the prairie kindled, spreading the flames for miles
  • Jim kindled the Easter fire, a blue flame at first barely visible above the silver rim of a white bowl.
  • When friends complained the name kindled thoughts of Aryan Nation white supremacists, he modified it to Arion. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • You have to keep the fire burning and this has definitely rekindled our spark. The Sun
  • You have to keep the fire burning and this has definitely rekindled our spark. The Sun
  • The couple had known each other 15 years ago but rekindled their relationship over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trial has rekindled painful memories of the war.
  • Ye, O most laudable, have forsaken the life that draggeth down, the delights of food and flourishing glory as transient things, and have attached yourselves unto Christ, kindled by His exceeding beauty, cleaving unto Him as sweet-smelling wild roses, and ye were God-beseemingly crowned with the crowns of the incorruptible Kingdom. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
  • And it rekindled Hollywood's interest. Times, Sunday Times
  • My heartfelt thanks to you, dear teacher. On the voyage of life, you have kindled the light of hope for me. What you have done enriches my mind and broadens my view. On this day I honour you sincerely.
  • The teacher's praise kindled a spark of hope inside her.
  • The call put out by the Prime Minister enkindled our blood.
  • Hope had kindled in her heart when news of her pregnancy came, praying to the gods she'd have something to live for.
  • Moreover, student involvement and curiosity will be kindled when they bring waste material for conducting these experiments, he adds.
  • TV quizzes have kindled many a latent quizzing talent and brought them to the fore.
  • There was a frenzy of rekindled interest in the ship and the disaster. The Sun
  • Love feelings could be rekindled now you can say what you want from a relationship, instead of hoping a partner will guess. The Sun
  • But the rekindled relationship will not be played out on TV. The Sun
  • But the Greek fires were again kindled; and if the destruction was less complete, it was owing to the experience which had taught the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The man kindled it and in the next moments the fresh and sweet air fulfilled with deep and suffocating smoke and scent of burning flesh.
  • The trick is to put those memories away until you can really recognize them as memories, not as stirrings of rekindled emotion.
  • My heartfelt thanks to you, dear teacher. On the voyage of life, you have kindled the light of hope for me. What you have done enriches my mind and broadens my view. On this day I honour you sincerely.
  • The 1848 political season was just beginning, and already it was reaching a white-hot intensity—kindled in part by that dynamic dynast of American politics, Henry Clay, whose magnified presence shone over the nation like a late afternoon sun over the sea. A Country of Vast Designs
  • But with a rekindled sense of religious identity, Soviet Jews pressed the fight for freedom, their struggles apotheosized by the nine-year imprisonment of activist Natan Sharansky, who was finally released and permitted to emigrate in 1986. Lost in Transit
  • The shocking scandal about corruption at the customs was rekindled two months ago, yet nobody from the contract's opposition had ever said a word.
  • By evening every fire in the kingdom would be extinguished, only to be rekindled from a ceremonial fire lit by a druid. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • They are the sort of people who have their interest rekindled by 6 Music. Times, Sunday Times
  • A short truce was obtained; but their mutual resentment again kindled; and the remembrance of their shame rendered the next encounter more desperate and bloody Forty thousand of the Barbarians perished in the decisive battle, which broke the power of the Gepidae, transferred the fears and wishes of Justinian, and first displayed the character of Alboin, the youthful prince of the Lombards, and the future conqueror of Italy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Love feelings could be rekindled now you can say what you want from a relationship, instead of hoping a partner will guess. The Sun
  • Ben Brantley's article on Sir Ian McKellen rekindled many memories.
  • The teacher's praise kindled a spark of hope inside her.
  • When reading the production of another, the tones of his voice became a merit-thermometer, a sort of Aeolian-harp-test; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
  • They rank among the plainest final words in the history of oratory, yet they kindled great expectations.
  • But her desire to create was rekindled after receiving her first left-handed guitar for a birthday gift.
  • Two stones rubbed themselves together and a spark lit and a fire was kindled on the wood piece.
  • Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been; because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our hearts.
  • They are all noysome to smell to, and cold to touch, without any manifest, or actuall heat at all; by reason (as may most probably be thought) their mynes, and veines of brimstone, are not kindled under the earth; being (perhaps) hindred by the mixture of salt therewith. Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain
  • As fire became, in my thinking, a metaphor for the emotions kindled by race, two additional chapters suggested themselves.
  • The second world war kindled his enthusiasm for politics.
  • But the rekindled relationship will not be played out on TV. The Sun
  • He attacked the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom with a savage vengeance that rekindled the revolutionism of his youth.
  • What a great fire had been kindled from such a little spark…
  • Today's wars, often kindled by ethnic hatred, are not fought on battlefronts, but in the midst of civilian populations.
  • My heartfelt thanks to you, dear teacher. On the voyage of life, you have kindled the light of hope for me. What you have done enriches my mind and broadens my view. On this day I honour you sincerely.
  • Surely a preacher can warm his heart at the fires these men have kindled.
  • He paused, quaking even at his own eloquence; but the stranger made no reply, till, throwing aside his cloak, he drew out a hagbut or demi-hague as it was sometimes called, being a sort of small harquebuss, with its match ready kindled. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • In Britain the merging together of the banking and securities business in the guise of financial conglomerates has rekindled this debate.
  • And it rekindled Hollywood's interest. Times, Sunday Times
  • Until this time, most of the population lived in dark, smoke-filled cottages heated by open fires kindled in the centre of an ‘open hall’.
  • By the time I left I thought I had my fill of LA but since then every trip back has rekindled my love for the place.
  • A club which had lain dormant for a decade and more has been rekindled.
  • Heraclius in the warres againste the Persians: when he had gotten the victory, and thei perceiued them selues to be defrauded by him: kindled with the angre of the villanye thei had done vnto them, by the counsell and persuasion of Mahomet (who tooke vppon him to be their captaine) thei forsoke Heraclius. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Jim kindled the Easter fire, a blue flame at first barely visible above the silver rim of a white bowl.
  • John had guested on the hit Lola and hung on until a surprise second coming in 1975 when the album Soap Opera and the single Everyone's a Star rekindled their earlier American success.
  • And as a result, in place of the kindled hopes and artificially aroused excitement comes disillusion and apathy.

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