All 4 Uses of

kindle

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Don Quixote

"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; and what commonly comes of the encounter is that one falls over the haunches of his horse pierced through and through by hi†
Chpt 1.13-14

kindles = arouses or inspires

had gone your own way and not come where there was no call for you, nor meddled in other people's affairs, my master would have been content with giving me one or two dozen lashes, and would have then loosed me and paid me what he owed me; but when your worship abused him so out of measure, and gave him so many hard words, his anger was kindled; and as he could not revenge himself on you, as soon as he saw you had left him the storm burst upon me in such a way, that I feel as if I should never be a man again.†
Chpt 1.31-32 *

kindled = aroused or inspired

The two were unwilling to make any further answer, as they saw that his anger was kindling.†
Chpt 1.7-8 *

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:

(1) (kindle as in: dry twigs to kindle a fire)
start (a fire)
(2) (kindle as in: it may kindle her interest)
arouse or inspire
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, Kindle can refer to a computer-reading tablet sold by Amazon.