All 6 Uses of
kindle
in
David Copperfield
- Something in the emphasis he laid upon the kindling of those sparks, and something in the glance he directed at me as he said it, had made me start as if I had seen him illuminated by a blaze of light.†
Chpt 25-27 *kindling = starting or spreading (a fire); or twigs, sticks, or other easily combustible material used to start a fire
- If there is any other compensation —' 'I am looking at the likeness of the face,' interrupted Mr. Peggotty, with a steady but a kindling eye, 'that has looked at me, in my home, at my fireside, in my boat — wheer not?†
Chpt 31-33
- I had only time, in dressing, to glance at the solid furniture, the framed pieces of work (done, I supposed, by Steerforth's mother when she was a girl), and some pictures in crayons of ladies with powdered hair and bodices, coming and going on the walls, as the newly-kindled fire crackled and sputtered, when I was called to dinner.†
Chpt 19-21
- 'To think that you should be the first to kindle the sparks of ambition in my umble breast, and that you've not forgot it!†
Chpt 25-27
- For a little while, his eye kindled and his voice was firm; for a little while he was again silent.†
Chpt 40-42
- She said it with a taunting pride in the midst of her frenzy — for it was little less — yet with an eager remembrance of it, in which the smouldering embers of a gentler feeling kindled for the moment.†
Chpt 55-57 *
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.