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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.

    Vladimir Putin: have a care, manling 2011

  • 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

  • “Well, obviously you have some things to figure out, man-cub.”

    One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze 2007

  • Nan shuddered, and thought of Shere Khan, with his taste for man-cub.

    Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

  • "Get the man-cub out of that trap; I can do no more," Bagheera gasped.

    The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "I am an evil man-cub, and my stomach is sad in me."

    The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "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

  • Give me the man-cub, or I will hunt here always, and not give you one bone.

    The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Listen, man-cub," said the Bear, and his voice rumbled like thunder on

    The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 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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