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Examples
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Of all the Jungle Book characters Putin could have picked to project himself as the voice of reason during a live, nationally televised 4½-hour phone-in – Baloo, Bagheera, even the man-cub Mowgli – the 30ft python Kaa was not he.
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Baloo, the wise, patient bear, teaches the "man-cub" the Law of the Pack, the animals 'code of chivalry in the bloody battlefield of the forest.
Leader of the Pack 2008
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“Well, obviously you have some things to figure out, man-cub.”
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Nan shuddered, and thought of Shere Khan, with his taste for man-cub.
Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999
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"Get the man-cub out of that trap; I can do no more," Bagheera gasped.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me."
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"Why didst thou not warn the man-cub?" he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Give me the man-cub, or I will hunt here always, and not give you one bone.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"Listen, man-cub," said the Bear, and his voice rumbled like thunder on
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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But for the sake of the Honor of the Pack, -- a little matter that by being without a leader ye have forgotten, -- I promise that if ye let the man-cub go to his own place, I will not, when my time comes to die, bare one tooth against ye.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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