All 7 Uses
retinue
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- Eight men made its retinue, and two of the eight were armed with rusty sabres—sure signs that they followed a person of distinction, for the common folk do not bear arms.†
Chpt 4
- Kim looked over the retinue critically.†
Chpt 4 *
- A dark, sallowish District Superintendent of Police, faultlessly uniformed, an Englishman, trotted by on a tired horse, and, seeing from her retinue what manner of person she was, chaffed her.†
Chpt 4
- Still, when Brahmins but irritated with begging demands the mother of his master's wife, and when she sent them away so angry that they cursed the whole retinue (which was the real reason of the second off-side bullock going lame, and of the pole breaking the night before), he was prepared to accept any priest of any other denomination in or out of India.†
Chpt 4
- They were both noticeably absent-minded when the old lady's retinue set their meal before them; so none broke their reserve, for it is not lucky to annoy guests.†
Chpt 5
- These Sahibs travelled without any retinue.†
Chpt 13
- He explained that they were very lucky to be alive; that their coolies, if not then stalking them, had passed beyond recall; that the Rajah, his master, was ninety miles away, and, so far from lending them money and a retinue for the Simla journey, would surely cast them into prison if he heard that they had hit a priest.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(retinue) a group of people following and attending to an important person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)