Hunting Verse—Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all
He has oppressed Beetle, M'Turk, and me, privatim et seriatim, one by one, as he could catch us. But now he has insulted Number Five up in the music-room, and in the presence of these - these ossifers...
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
Ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave, —W.E. Henley.
Where are the fish, though?In the sea they say, in the boats we pray, said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.
The Three-DeckerThe three-volume novel is extinct.Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail.It cost a watch to steer her, and a week to shorten sail;But, spite all modern notions, I found he...
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,Our love where we spent our toil,And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,We pledge to our native soil.God gave all men all earth to love,But since our hearts...
My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilised Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim? His soul repeated it again and again.
How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote -- not count...
Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.
Holden found one helpless little hand that closed feebly on his finger. And the clutch ran through his body till it settled about his heart. Till then his sole thought had been for Ameera. He began to...
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee—the madness—an...
Cites and Thrones and PowersStand in Time's eyeWhich daily die;But, as new buds put forthTo glad new men, Out of the spend and unconsidered Earth,The cities will rise again
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,...
And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat (23).
An increasing cackle of complaints, orders, and jests, and what to a European would have been bad language, came from behind the curtains. Here was evidently a woman used to command.
Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.
[A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as...