What is "rekindle"

Usage examples of "rekindle".

A few of these might rekindle their passion for a while, but most would look for easier ways of annihilating the longing inside them.

I felt that my old flame for Therese was rekindled in my heart, and I did not know whether I was glad or sorry at her being married.

And as He chose me, so I choose you, to be the flame that will rekindle the true faith in this godless land.

The reader may remember how I had become her friend at Berlin in 1764, and when we met again at Florence our old flames were rekindled.

With a rekindled confidence that she could end this quickly, Martine leaned the hippogriff in a broad arc that would carry them toward the plume.

I will have nothing to do with a pastime which would rekindle fires that are hardly yet quenched.

The song was about past times of innocence and belief, and through it, Christa called to Melinda, trying to rekindle something of those qualities in the bassist, to mirror them to her so that she might see what she could become once again.

She knelt, rekindling fingerlamps, handing Brandl his harp and Collum his pack.

I saw Luscinda immediately, my desires were rekindled, though they had not been dead or dampened, and, to my sorrow, I spoke of them to Don Fernando, because it seemed to me that, given the great friendship he had shown me, I ought not hide anything from him.

He continually refilled and rekindled a pipe that became ever fouler and fouler.

Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

He must get his colleagues to accept her as their joint candidate, and then let Claudius rekindle the embers of a past love.

And now the embers of the Faith that Paul spoke about are indeed rekindling into flame.

Although Agatha was in the very flower of her beauty, the old fires were not rekindled in me.

However, the telescopes, placed on orbiters in space, were hit several times by streams of radiation singular enough to rekindle extinguished hopes.