How To Use Kipling In A Sentence
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Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's
A Winner of the Victoria Cross
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The story is Kipling's brilliant refutation of the widely accepted saw that time heals all wounds.
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Wodehouse is loved by Indians who loathe Kipling and detest the Raj and all its works.
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Didn't Kipling make the point that if you keep paying the Danegeld you won't get rid of the Dane?
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Kipling, Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many lesser authors penned stories full of animal hides and bare feet, struggles for food and battles with ravening beasts.
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Over the last century, writers like Rudyard Kipling and moviemakers like Walt Disney have given almost human qualities to what in real life are wild and untamable animals.
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The title novella is about Ravi, "a wild creature from the mountains" in the vein of Kipling's Mowgli.
Rapt in Translation; Zombie Zoology
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Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Kipling as journalist and very efficient colourman in words has made much of India in his time.
Rudyard Kipling
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In 1901 a brief review waxed lyrical over the novel Kim, calling it "a fine antidote to all manner of morbidness" and the finest of Kipling's creations to date, a book "that fairly amazes one by the proof it affords of the author's magnificent versatility.
Who Was Kipling?
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He gives a superficial and inadequate account of Kipling's curious, subtle, savage, contradictory passion for England, which was both his home and his place of exile.
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Of course none of this is not really " elephant talk ", although Kipling assumes in his usual anthropomorphic way that elephants can communicate complex ideas.
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Kipling's idea was that the leopard was given his spots so he could lurk unnoticed in the dappled shade of the forests.
Times, Sunday Times
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Except to say that the sun has set on the fictional British empire, and the appearance of children pretending to explore a jungle served by rude native porters and fearful of cannibals is -- in 1965 -- pretty much Kipling's death rattle.
SeeLight:
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My dad, the Fox “News” devotee, is a huge fan of Kiplings, having grown up in the British Empire himself.
What is the normal rate of suicides? « Antiwar.com Blog
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Kipling, just released from his long confinement, like a boy out of school, was the life of the partyand when, one day, he found a woman aboard reading a copy of The Ladies Home Journal his joy knew no bounds; he turned in the most inimitable copy to the Tonic, describing the womans feelings as she read the different departments in the magazine.
Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecturer
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Though an ardent supporter of empire, Kipling was in many ways an untypical "sahib," an individualist bent on exploring the forbidden, seamier side of the Punjab region for his fiction.
Rudyard and the Raj
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Also in fear, hate and love, which may have pathological expressions such as arachnophobia (Diski's is cured by London Zoo), animal hoarding, or the internet fad for "lolcats": cat photos whose ungrammatical text (we get Genesis chapter one in "lolcat") resembles the dog-speak that Kipling nauseatingly sustains throughout "Thy Servant a Dog".
What I Don't Know About Animals by Jenny Diski – review
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Rudyard Kipling coined the term, The Great Game, to describe one hundred and fifty years of intrigue, military adventurism, and espionage.
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Over the last century, writers like Rudyard Kipling and moviemakers like Walt Disney have given almost human qualities to what in real life are wild and untamable animals.
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The town described by Kipling in Plain Tales from the Hills seemed a wonderfully absurd Victorian fantasy.
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And we've had our fun," he boasted, "and speaking of sweethearts and all," he cribbed from Kipling, "'We've rogued and we've ranged --'
The Red One
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Rudyard Kipling, Forster and Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul are three important writers of colonial and post - colonial literature.
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And for those that don't know, it's the Rudyard Kipling story of these two sergeants in the English Army in India who finished their service and then sort of become these rogue scammers and then have this idea that they will have this plot to become a king of Kafiristan.
Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
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HE MAY not be a person who deals in ifs and buts, but, referencing Rudyard Kipling's poem ‘If’, David Hay is the epitome of a man.
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But certainly the arrival of the spirit represented by Kipling, added to the discipline of his own early adventures, braced him and energised him; and almost his first literary effort took the form of ballad poems uniting a fineness and sweetness which were entirely his own with a kind of lusty vigour which was superimposed.
Personality in Literature
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Kipling's idea was that the leopard was given his spots so he could lurk unnoticed in the dappled shade of the forests.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wilson , Angus . The Strange Ride Rudyard Kipling, His Life and Works . New York: Viking Press, 1978.
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Somewhere or other that downy bird Kipling observes that the lesson of the island race is to put away all emotion and entrap the alien at the proper time. 16 I learned it in my cradle, long before he wrote it, and have practised it all my life with some success, and only this difference, that for "entrap" I prefer to substitute "escape".
Watershed
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The ‘screw guns’ to which Kipling refers were rifled artillery pieces with longer range and more penetrating power than the older smooth-bore guns.
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Kipling has caught up in wondrous songs for the future centuries to sing.
These Bones Shall Rise Again
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Tis serfitude pure and simple, e'en as the words of Kipling echo about my head.
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Kipling mocked the place, viceroys and vicereines hated it, but here the British rulers of India spent most of their imperial century.
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I am sure that we schoolmasters have many faults; but we are really trying to do better, and, as I said before, I only wish that a man of Kipling's genius had held out to us a helping hand, instead of giving us a push back into the ugly slough of usherdom, out of which many good fellows, my friends and colleagues, have, however feebly, been struggling to emerge.
The Upton Letters
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Kipling's fuzzy-wuzzies"; "the couturier Madeleine Vionnet" put in an unexpected appearance in the same paragraph as Herodotus, Baudelaire and St Francis of Assisi.
Top stories from Times Online
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Rudyard Kipling spent the second half of his life at Bateman's, his solid Jacobean home in the Weald which had been 'untouched and unfaked' by Victorian 'improvers'
Weatherwatch
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The snobbery is hateful, but you can see that Kipling - the poet of Empire would have no sympathy for Gordon Brown's idea.
Rudyard Kipling answers Gordon Brown
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I was not the first to notice the similarity between this life and Kipling's short story.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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I was not the first to notice the similarity between this life and Kipling's short story.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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Mr Kipling is a wonderful metrician; but that is not the question.
Rudyard Kipling
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In January 1897 Kipling's latest volume of poetry, The Seven Seas, prompted a rave from the usually imperious Harvard savant Charles Eliot Norton, whose esteem for the poems was no doubt colored by his close friendship with the Kipling family.
Who Was Kipling?
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Mr Kipling caught two young scamps scrumping in his orchard.
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Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, is especially evocative here, and Ackroyd employs the term "inscape," a favorite usage of Gerard Manley Hopkins, to convey the impression of something more in nature than meets the eye.
That Blessed Plot, That Enigmatic Isle
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They had Kipling like they had those ivory elephants on the mantelpiece.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tis serfitude pure and simple, e'en as the words of Kipling echo about my head.
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Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's Galley
A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
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Profits of the Bisto-to-Mr-Kipling-cakes giant have nose-dived from ￡150m to just over ￡92m with big bites taken out of both bread and cakes.
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Rudyard Kipling finds a warm spot in Chesterton's heart, but he is a little too militaristic, which is exactly what he is not.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Rudyard Kipling hailed the ‘Imperial Fire of Rome’ as a divine dispensation that had fallen ‘on us, thy son.’
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Rudyard Kipling described the South Islands Milford Sound as the eighth wonder of the world.
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When yo 'mad yo' kin 'complish de onpossible, en it doan' hurt yo '," replied Dolcey, thus going Kipling one better.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
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The White Man's Burden, a phrase immortalized by English poet Rudyard Kipling as an excuse for European-American imperialism, was front and center Thursday morning at a RAND-sponsored discussion of Afghanistan in the Russell Senate Office Building.
Kipling Haunts Obama's Afghan War
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The following passage from Kiplings American Notes, ch. i, will be recalled: Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee schoolmarm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern states are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent.
Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 1. General Characters
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Once Kipling got his Nobel, he was kicked upstairs to the more respectable niche of assistant editor, as per the Pioneer apocrypha.
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Stevenson and Kipling have proved its immense popularity, with the whole brood of detective stories and the tales of successful rascality we call "picaresque" Our most popular weekly shows the broad appeal of this class of fiction.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
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In his day, it was not unusual to find the likes of Elgar, Kipling, Lloyd George and a couple of Rockefellers gathered round the breakfast table, having been roused rudely from their slumbers by a bagpiper.
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As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’
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The Ancient Mariner was one, and there were some of Rudyard Kipling's and he loved The Idylls of the King – in especial Guinivere.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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Kipling had hoped that pince-nez would get him through, but only the imperial poet's influence got his son a commission.
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Rudyard Kipling is a typical colonial writer and colonized India.
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Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, in exultant recognition of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, embodied the spirit of that nostalgic period.
Responsible Nationhood
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But while Norton's lavish tribute may well have had a certain avuncular motive, it's evident that the fervor and clamor of young Kipling's balladry stirred the old Brahmin to his bones.
Who Was Kipling?
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By choosing the best of more than 7,000 of Kipling's missives, and adding scholarly notes and index, Thomas Pinney has performed an invaluable service for students of this coruscating writer and his turbulent times.
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_Kindly tell me if the Mr. KIPLING who has been making such a splendid speech about the Cabinet and their mercenariness and the treacherous nature of the Irish is the same Mr. KIPLING who wrote "The Recessional" and "Without Benefit of Clergy"?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914
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Kipling penned this ode to imperialism as a tribute to the US annexation of the Philippines.
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Predictably, Kipling railed against most aspects of modernity, such as jazz and psychoanalysis.
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Ms. Di Novelli's efficient libretto condenses the book and Rescorla's life story into a series of vignettes that illustrate the formation of Rescorla's philosophy of soldiering and hammer home the opera's themes, bolstered with his favorite quotes from Rudyard Kipling and Raymond Chandler.
Sanitized 9/11 Heroics
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Kipling uses the orotund, elaborate language of Hindi courtesy to provide the ritual punctuation for the longer stories.
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The pattern is that of Heinlein's famous "juveniles" of the 1950s, such as "Citizen of the Galaxy," but also of Kipling's "Kim": A young boy, homeless and on the run, is adopted and sheltered by a mentor, who helps him grow up to be an omnicompetent foil for the fools and stooges around him.
By Gaslight, Hunting The Undead
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I was reminded of what Rudyard Kipling once said: A westerner can be friendly without being intimate while an easterner tends to be intimate without being friendly.
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In the realm of Edwardian poetry the real poetic innovator was Kipling, pioneer importer of the raw material of contemporary life as subject matter for poetic treatment.
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Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite.
Times, Sunday Times
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And if the subject is inspiration, one's thoughts return to Kipling, to the same "Epitaphs of the Great War," which includes this sextain, entitled, "A Dead Statesman":
James Pinkerton: Walter Jones Meets Rudyard Kipling
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Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's "Galley Slave": -
The People of the Abyss
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The typical soldier of Victorian popular fiction and poetry, Tommy Atkins, had yet to be invented by Kipling.
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With these lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem on the flyleaf, begins one of the most exciting, thrilling and disturbing novels about war.
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Over the last century, writers like Rudyard Kipling and moviemakers like Walt Disney have given almost human qualities to what in real life are wild and untamable animals.
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Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quite frankly, the explanations from natural historians, folklorists and fossil experts are as strange as Kipling's fictional accounts.
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But frankly, that is more ifs than can be found in a Kipling poem.
