All 4 Uses of
kindle
in
Don Quixote
- The two were unwilling to make any further answer, as they saw that his anger was kindling.†
Chpt 1.7-8 *kindling = starting or spreading (a fire); or twigs, sticks, or other easily combustible material used to start a fire
- "For all that," answered the traveller, "I feel some doubt still, because often I have read how words will arise between two knights-errant, and from one thing to another it comes about that their anger kindles and they wheel their horses round and take a good stretch of field, and then without any more ado at the top of their speed they come to the charge, and in mid-career they are wont to commend themselves to their ladies;†
Chpt 1.13-14 *kindles = arouses or inspires
- but when your worship abused him so out of measure, and gave him so many hard words, his anger was kindled;†
Chpt 1.31-32
- When I heard them talking of bull-fights taking place, and of javelin games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who is a year younger than myself, to tell me what sort of things these were, and many more that I had never seen; he explained them to me as well as he could, but the only effect was to kindle in me a still stronger desire to see them.†
Chpt 2.49-50
Definitions:
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(1)
(kindle as in: dry twigs to kindle a fire) start (a fire)
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(2)
(kindle as in: it may kindle her interest) arouse or inspire
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, Kindle can refer to a computer-reading tablet sold by Amazon.