All 27 Uses
stallion
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- Here were all manner of Northern folk, tending tethered ponies and kneeling camels; loading and unloading bales and bundles; drawing water for the evening meal at the creaking well-windlasses; piling grass before the shrieking, wild-eyed stallions; cuffing the surly caravan dogs; paying off camel-drivers; taking on new grooms; swearing, shouting, arguing, and chaffering in the packed square.†
Chpt 1
- It concerns a horse—a white stallion which I have sold to an officer upon the last time I returned from the Passes.†
Chpt 1 *
- 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
- ' 'And all for the sake of a white stallion,' said Kim, with a giggle, his eyes aflame.†
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
- '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
- After what he had seen in the garden, he was not going to write of white stallions.†
Chpt 6
- Three miles off, on Umballa racecourse, Mahbub Ali, reining a grey Kabuli stallion with Kim in front of him, was saying: 'But, Little Friend of all the World, there is my honour and reputation to be considered.†
Chpt 6
- The stallion bounded wildly.†
Chpt 6
- It was a white stallion.'†
Chpt 6
- A white Arab stallion.†
Chpt 6
- A message concerning the pedigree of a white stallion.'†
Chpt 6
- Stand behind the stallion as though looking at my bridle!' said Mahbub Ali.†
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
- Next morning, on the same course, Mahbub's stallion ranged alongside the Colonel.†
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
- Indeed a white stallion's pedigree is not a good thing to peddle to Sahibs!†
Chpt 8
- Now manifestly a Kathiawar mare taken from the sands of her birthplace and removed to the west of Bengal founders—nor is even a Balkh stallion (and there are no better horses than those of Balkh, were they not so heavy in the shoulder) of any account in the great Northern deserts beside the snow-camels I have seen.†
Chpt 8
- Shout Gul Sher Khan yonder to drive in that bay stallion's pickets more firmly.†
Chpt 8
- I am a Sufi [free-thinker], but when one can get blind-sides of a woman, a stallion, or a devil, why go round to invite a kick?†
Chpt 10
- 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)
(stallion) a male horse that has not been castrated (gelded) -- especially one used for breeding purposes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)