“For Kim did nothing with an immense success.”
― Kim
― Kim
“and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.”
― Just So Stories
― Just So Stories
“And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs–frog-eater– fish-killer–he shall hunt thee!”
― The Jungle Book
― The Jungle Book
“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside,
but the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
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but the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
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“Damn it," he mumbled apologetically, "things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold."
She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. "How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer”
― The Warrior's Apprentice
She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. "How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer”
― The Warrior's Apprentice
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