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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Kindle

Kindling like a Christmas feaster
When some wild chorus shakes the vinous air.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Kindled like as heaven in June.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Heart kindling as the heart of heaven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Kindling, as dawn a frost-bound precipice.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Kindling as a rose at breath of sunrise.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Kindles and burns,
Like a fiery star in the upper air.
—John Greenleaf Whittier