Would you not like to rekindle the home lights that long ago were extinguished?
A new tankard of wine to rekindle the mirth of the lords?
Less than this would have sufficed to rekindle Louis’s jealousy and suspicion.
Discontent was visible in the expression of men’s countenances, and it was evident that the Emperor must indeed do wonders to rekindle feelings that were beginning to chill.
The ignited punk was used to light a large bonfire, and then the head of every family was required to take home 'new fire' to rekindle a fire in his or her fire-place.
At this fire is lit the great Paschal or Easter candle, which is then used to rekindle all the extinguished lights in the church.
Moreover, every householder had to rekindle the fire on his hearth by means of a light taken from the bonfire.
Now it can be shewn that in order to increase the celestial source of heat at midwinter savages resort to a practice analogous to that of our Yule log, if the kindling of the Yule log was originally a magical rite intended to rekindle the sun.
Coals from the bonfires are then taken back to the village and used to rekindle the fires on the domestic hearths.
When all the inhabitants had thus crept through the tunnel and been doctored at the other end, each took some glowing embers home with him in a pot wherewith to rekindle the fire on the domestic hearth.
He had really tried to love his wife; he had done his best to rekindle the admiration with which she had inspired him at their first meeting.
Less than this would have sufficed to rekindle the wrath of Maurice.
Suffer me, then, to rekindle the latent flame, to revive that friendship and tenderness which I have so foolishly neglected.
If they still remain, perhaps I mayrekindle the gentle flame, and we may both be happy.
I hurried out in a foolish state of dread, and said to Joseph--'The master wishes you to take him a light and rekindle the fire.
I descended cautiously to the lower regions, and landed in the back-kitchen, where a gleam of fire, raked compactly together, enabled me to rekindle my candle.
In the fourth Lateran council of 1215 Innocent found his opportunity torekindle the flickering fires.
But it is long before the death of any institution is recognized; and it was inevitable that men should busy themselves in trying to rekindle the dead embers into new life.
The sovereign pontiff, in order to accomplish his designs, and rekindle the enthusiasm of the faithful, found it necessary to strike the imagination of the nations vividly, and to present a grand spectacle to the Christian world.
Thus everything contributed to inflame the hatred of two nations, whom such great misfortunes ought to have more closely united, and to rekindle discords that were doomed to bring in their train new and incurable calamities.
In favor of his proselyte, Urban strove to rekindle the zeal of the French king and the other powers of the West; but he found them cold in the general cause, and active only in their domestic quarrels.
If ever thy lord's love should wax cold, or he should look upon another woman to love her more than thee, give him this charmed tunic to wear, and it will rekindle his old passion.
Then the Queen knew that she was betrayed, and flatteries and soft words served but torekindle her rage.
A new impulse had been necessary to rekindle the energies of religious zeal, and that impulse was now operating in favour of a purer religion, with one of whose steadiest votaries the youth had now met for the first time.
As an oak-spirit he must have been supposed periodically to rekindle the sun's fire, and might therefore easily be confounded with the sun itself.
At this fire is lit the Easter candle, which is then used to rekindle all the extinguished lights in the church.
To say that the fires awaken the sun-god from his sleep is only a metaphorical and perhaps modernised expression of the belief that they actually help to rekindle the sun's light and heat.
Though the fierce ray rekindle me within, It burns not all: her cruel and severe Form may disturb, not break my slumbers here.
The vexed and mortified watchman set about to strike a light in order to rekindle the fire but the tinder was moist, and his labour proved in this respect also ineffectual.
But be they men or fiends," said the undaunted forester, "that busy themselves yonder with such fantastical rites and gestures, I will go and demand a light to rekindle our furnace.
The Prince would not awake his brothers, although he had no tinder-box of his own to rekindle it with, but resolved to search around a little in the wilderness in hope of stumbling upon some one who could help him.
He descended the tree and went in the direction of the light, hoping to get some fire wherewith to rekindle the fire for his brothers.
This trumpery will help us to rekindle the fire which is going out.
They tried, however, to rekindle the dwindling flame of the first love.
But how was Samuel to rekindle a fervent religious life among the degenerate Israelites in such unsettled times?
