All 4 Uses of
kindle
in
Little Dorrit
- Arthur Clennam would have been little disposed to linger in bed, though his bed had been in a more private situation, and less affected by the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.†
Chpt 1.9kindling = starting or spreading (a fire); or twigs, sticks, or other easily combustible material used to start a fire
- 'Your foot is like marble, my child;' he had happened to touch it, while stooping on one knee at his work of kindling the fire; 'put it nearer the warmth.'†
Chpt 1.14 *
- The more he pursued it, and the oftener he glanced at the grey head bending over it, and the shrewd eye kindling with pleasure in it and love of it—instrument for probing his heart though it had been made for twelve long years—the less he could reconcile it to his younger energy to let it go without one effort more.†
Chpt 2.8
- He saw the bright delight of her face, and the flush that kindled in it, with a feeling of shame.†
Chpt 2.29 *
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.