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kindling

/ˈkɪnd.lɪŋ/ adjective C2
  1. Illuminated, lit.
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Ah, my friend!” said the abbé, turning towards Dantès, and surveying him with the kindling gaze of a prophet, “you are young, you will see all this come to pass.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 144 · C1
And it is certain that she looked at Chandler, with his animated but self-possessed manner and his kindling and frank blue eyes, with something not far from admiration in her own charming face.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 30 · C1

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