The Jungle Book — Vocabulary
Rudyard Kipling
(Edited)

...what Mowgli looked at was the sides of the ravine, and he saw with a great deal of satisfaction that they ran nearly straight up and down, while the vines and creepers that hung over them would give no foothold to a tiger who wanted to get out.p.100.2alternate pages23 more

All the Jungle-People admire us for our skill and our cunning.p.51.5alternate pages7 more

...and now and again the tiger carried off a man at twilight, within sight of the village gates.p.91.1alternate pages8 more

"Do you think a snake-killer kills muskrats?" said Rikki-tikki scornfully.p.160.3alternate pages2 more

Now that all the seals and their wives were on the land, you could hear their clamor miles out to sea above the loudest gales.p.119.6alternate pages3 more

Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.p.35.5alternate pages3 more

Do you gentlemen of the screw-gun battery feel inclined to eat when you are being fired at with big guns, and Two Tails is behind you?p.224.1alternate pages1 more

He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts,p.22.6alternate pages1 more

Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa ... who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.p.73.2alternate pages1 more

Kaa was not a poison snake—in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards—but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.p.57.2alternate pages2 more

  "What I want to know," said the young mule, who had been quiet for a long time--"what I want to know is, why we have to fight at all."
  "Because we're told to," said the troop-horse, with a snort of contempt.p.230.6alternate pages1 more

"I did not know these things," said Mowgli sullenly, and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows.p.27.3alternate pages1 more

Only, another time do not meddle with my game.p.105.6alternate pages1 more

Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.p.18.3alternate pages

Mowgli, who was very much ashamed of himself, slept between the Panther and the Bear, resolving to have no more to do with the Monkey People.p.51.1alternate pages

Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and Father Wolf said to her gravely: "Shere Khan speaks this much truth. The cub must be shown to the Pack."p.15.7alternate pages2 more

He made his bound before he saw what it was he was jumping at, and then he tried to stop himself.p.12.5alternate pages12 more

Then ten or twelve men, each with an iron-bound club three or four feet long, came up ... and then the men clubbed the seals on the head as fast as they could.p.128.9alternate pages12 more

[of Kotick the seal] That very minute he turned north, swimming steadily, and as he went on he met scores of his mates, all bound for the same place, and they said: "Greeting, Kotick!"p.125.4alternate pages12 more

Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have allowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.p.23.9alternate pages12 more