kindling

When he wakened again daylight was at hand, and Mr. Dopples was kindling a fire.

But the blood of the four was kindling, and they had vengeance instead of sport to seek.

This great military array extinguished at once the kindling elements of a civil war, "by making resistance desperate."

Have kindling wood at hand also, so that a fire may be quickly made, if needed.

She plucked at the fringe of her shawl, and Colonel Ferrers waited, though with a kindling eye.