Kipling's novel

Usage examples of kim.

Nor till he had licked the last of the sticky sweetstuff from his little finger did Kim note that the Kamboh too was girt for travel.

The Kamboh plied Kim with ten thousand questions as to the lama's walk and work in life, and received some curious answers.

It was a very short march, and time lacked an hour to sundown, so Kim cast about for means of amusement.

It struck Kim as curious that no shrine stood in so eligible a spot: the boy was observing as any priest for these things.

No one can see beyond the light of a fire,' said Kim, his eyes still on the flag.

Mr Bennett gasped and doubled up, but without relaxing his grip, rolled over again, and silently hauled Kim to his own tent.

They called men into the tent - one of them certainly was the Colonel, as his father had prophesied - and they asked him an infinity of questions, chiefly about the woman who looked after him, all of which Kim answered truthfully.

The Regiment would go on to Umballa, and Kim would be sent up, partly at the expense of the Lodge and in part by subscription, to a place called Sanawar.

My mother was a pahareen, but my father came from Amritzar - by Jandiala,' said Kim, oiling his ready tongue for the needs of the Road.

Wait here,' said the lama, and he sat down by the Jat upon the lowest step of the temple, while Kim, looking out of the corner of his eyes, slowly opened the little betel-box.

The lama turned to Kim, and all the loving old soul of him looked out through his narrow eyes.

They knew, and Kim knew that they knew, how the old lama had met his disciple.

Meantime Kim, lonelier than ever, squatted on the steps, and swore to himself in the language of St Xavier's.

There tumbled into the compartment, as the train was moving off, a mean, lean little person - a Mahratta, so far as Kim could judge by the cock of the tight turban.

On no account was Kim to part with them, for they belonged to a great piece of magic - such magic as men practised over yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue-and-white Jadoo-Gher - the Magic House, as we name the Masonic Lodge.