All 24 Uses
pedigree
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- But then—stand nearer and hold up hands as begging—the pedigree of the white stallion was not fully established, and that officer, who is now at Umballa, bade me make it clear.'†
Chpt 1
- 'So the message to that officer will be: "The pedigree of the white stallion is fully established."†
Chpt 1
- 'That pedigree I will give thee now—in my own fashion and some hard words as well.'†
Chpt 1 *
- He knew he had rendered a service to Mahbub Ali, and not for one little minute did he believe the tale of the stallion's pedigree.†
Chpt 1
- He had never passed the serai gate since his arrival two days ago, but had been ostentatious in sending telegrams to Bombay, where he banked some of his money; to Delhi, where a sub-partner of his own clan was selling horses to the agent of a Rajputana state; and to Umballa, where an Englishman was excitedly demanding the pedigree of a white stallion.†
Chpt 1
- Sorrowful delayed pedigree which am translating.'†
Chpt 1
- Will forward pedigree.'†
Chpt 1
- 'It must be the pedigree of that made-up horse-lie,' said he, 'the thing that I carry to Umballa.†
Chpt 1
- 'Ay, I beg for him,' said Kim, anxious only to get the lama under shelter for the night, that he might seek Mahbub Ali's Englishman and deliver himself of the white stallion's pedigree.†
Chpt 2
- 'The pedigree of the white stallion is fully established.'†
Chpt 2
- 'And all that trouble,' said he to himself, thinking as usual in Hindustani, 'for a horse's pedigree!†
Chpt 2
- The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations.†
Chpt 4
- At Umballa I carried the news of the bay mare's pedigree.'†
Chpt 6
- Was it some matter of a bay mare that Peters Sahib wished the pedigree of?'†
Chpt 6
- A message concerning the pedigree of a white stallion.'†
Chpt 6
- 'Not when I brought thee'—Kim actually dared to use the turn of equals—'a white stallion's pedigree that night?'†
Chpt 7
- I put my hand upon my amulet, which lies always next to my skin, and, remembering the pedigree of a white stallion that I had bitten out of a piece of Mussalmani bread, I went away to Umballa perceiving that a heavy trust was laid upon me.†
Chpt 8
- Therefore I went to Umballa, as thou knowest, but (and this thou dost not know) I lay hid in the garden-grass to see what Colonel Creighton Sahib might do upon reading the white stallion's pedigree.'†
Chpt 8
- I saw the two read the white stallion's pedigree.†
Chpt 8
- But now I learn every day, and in three years the Colonel will take me out of the madrissah and let me go upon the Road with Mahbub hunting for horses' pedigrees, or maybe I shall go by myself; or maybe I shall find the lama and go with him.†
Chpt 8
- Indeed a white stallion's pedigree is not a good thing to peddle to Sahibs!†
Chpt 8
- We need not follow the rest of the pedigree; but Kim made his little point clearly and without heat, chewing a piece of sugar-cane the while.†
Chpt 8
- You sit tight, Mister O'Hara ...It concerns the pedigree of a white stallion.'†
Chpt 12
- There were Five Kings who prepared a sudden war three years ago, when thou wast given the stallion's pedigree by Mahbub Ali.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(pedigree) the line of ancestors of an animal; or any background or history of a person or idea, showing origins and development
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)