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Page 285 - The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growing — Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing — His Sea in no showing the same — his Sea and the same 'neath each showing: His Sea as she slackens or thrills? So and no otherwise — so and no otherwise — hillmen desire their Hills!
Page 169 - Something I owe to the soil that grew — More to the life that fed — But most to Allah Who gave me two Separate sides to my head.
Page 420 - Upon this my Soul, which is the soul of Teshoo Lama, withdrew itself from the Great Soul with strivings and yearnings and retchings and agonies not to be told. As the egg from the fish, as the fish from the water, as the water from the cloud, as the cloud from the thick air; so put forth, so leaped out, so drew away, so fumed up the soul of Teshoo Lama from the Great Soul. Then a voice cried: "The River! Take heed to the River!
Page 58 - Now let us walk," muttered the lama, and to the click of his rosary they walked in silence mile upon mile. The lama, as usual, was deep in meditation, but Kim's bright eyes were open wide. This broad, smiling river of life, he considered, was a vast improvement on the cramped and crowded Lahore streets.
Page 212 - From time to time, God causes men to be born — and thou art one of them — who have a lust to go abroad at the risk of their lives and discover news — to-day it may be of far-off things, tomorrow of some hidden mountain, and the next day of some near-by men who have done a foolishness against the State.
Page 101 - And what was the end of the Search ? What gift has the Red Bull brought ? " The lama addressed himself to Kim. " He says, ' What are you going to do ? ' " Bennett was staring uneasily at Father Victor, and Kim, for his own ends, took upon himself the office of interpreter. " I do not see what concern this faquir has with the boy, who is probably his dupe or his confederate,
Page 361 - Had I been passionless, the evil blow would have done only bodily evil — a scar, or a bruise — which is illusion. But my mind was not abstracted, for rushed in straightway a lust to let the Spiti men kill. In fighting that lust, my soul was torn and wrenched beyond a thousand blows. Not till I had repeated the Blessings (he meant the Buddhist Beatitudes) did I achieve calm.
Page 317 - Quetta, waiting on the wife of the man whose book I stole. And that was part of the Great Game ! From the South — God knows how far — came up the Mahratta, playing the Great Game in fear of his life. Now I shall go far and far into the North playing the Great Game. Truly, it runs like a shuttle throughout all Hind. And my share and my joy ' ' —he smiled to the darkness — '
Page 253 - A very few white people, but many Asiatics, can throw themselves into a mazement as it were by repeating their own names over and over again to themselves, letting the mind go free upon speculation as to what is called personal identity. When one grows older, the power, usually, departs, but while it lasts it may descend upon a man at any moment. 'Who is Kim — Kim — Kim?
Page 201 - Look ! It is coming into shape,' said Lurgan Sahib, So far Kim had been thinking in Hindi, but a tremor came on him, and with an effort like that of a swimmer before sharks, who hurls himself half out of the water, his mind leaped up from a darkness that was swallowing it and took refuge in — the multiplication table in English! ' Look ! It is coming into shape,