"Kalka" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... must have great energy. To drive all the way up from Kalka by noon and appear at a ...
— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... fulfilled to the letter a month later. Mahbub had gone down to Umballa to bring up a fresh consignment of horses, and Kim met him on the Kalka road at dusk riding alone, begged an alms of him, was sworn at, and replied in English. There was nobody within earshot to ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling
... northern realms of Souzdal and Vladimir, listened appalled to the reports of the tempest raging over the southern portion of the kingdom; and when the dark cloud disappeared and its thunders ceased, he congratulated himself in having escaped its fury. After the terrible battle of Kalka, six years passed before the locust legions of the Tartars again made their appearance; and Russia hoped that the scourge had disappeared for ever. In the year 1227, Genghis Khan died. It has been estimated that the ambition ...
— The Empire of Russia • John S. C. Abbott |
