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Kipling   /kˈɪplɪŋ/   Listen
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Kipling  n.  Rudyard Kipling, English author (1865-1936). He was born at Bombay, India in 1865, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, who was formerly head of the Lahore School of Industrial Art. He was educated in England and returned to India in 1880 as editor of the "Lahore Civil and Military Gazette." He returned to England about 1889, and lived several years in the United States. While in India he published stories, sketches, and poems descriptive of India and Anglo-Indian military and civil life: " Departmental Ditties, etc.", "Plain Tales from the Hills", "Mine Own People", "Soldiers Three", "Barrack-room Ballads, etc.", and others. After leaving India he published "The Light That Failed," "Naulahka" (with Balestier), "Many Inventions," "The Jungle Book," "The Second Jungle Book," "The Seven Seas," "Captains Courageous," "The White Man's Burden," "Kim," "The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories," and others.
Synonyms: Rudyard Kipling.






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"Kipling" Quotes from Famous Books



... selection, "The Phantom 'Rickshaw," if only for that obiter dictum of ghost-presence as Kipling explains about the rift in the brain: "—and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed ...
— The Best Ghost Stories • Various

... picked up Kipling's Seven Seas, marked liberally, and felt that she had struck a scent. The roughness and brutality of the poems had always chilled her, though she had felt vaguely their splendid pulse and swing. This was the girl's first venture ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach

... replaced the cigarette to which he had just helped himself. "'The young girl had not realized her own power. She was only just coming into her woman's kingdom. Her heart beat faster and a vermilion blush dyed her pale cheek."' Isabel's favourite authors were Stevenson and Mr. Kipling, but her mental rubric insisted on clothing itself in the ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... runs to-day, it is a long time since Kipling wrote his story of the airways of a future world and thrust out a prophecy that the bulk of the world's air traffic would be carried by gas-bag vessels. If the school which inclines to belief in the dirigible ...
— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian

... spite of the tremendous risks that they ran, these boats continued their operations for some time, passing up as far as Constantinople, actually shelling the city, sinking transports, and accomplishing other feats which have been graphically described in the stories of Rudyard Kipling. And again, if the mine-fields were placed in close proximity to their bases, it would be comparatively easy for German submersibles of the Lake type, possessing appliances to enable divers to pass outboard when the vessel is submerged, to go out and cut away the ...
— The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner • Georg-Guenther von Forstner


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