kindling
/ˈkɪnd.lɪŋ/ noun C2- Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire. · Go and collect some kindling.
- The act by which something is kindled.
Plural kindlings
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“I’ll settle Miss Anne when she comes home,” said Marilla grimly, as she shaved up kindlings with a carving knife and with more vim than was strictly necessary.
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.”
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.
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