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  • Hill-Manling at the dance diligently warns against PRIDE -- the rank

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

  • Hill-Manling tendered him, in all humility, three pennies.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

  • I had thought to take thee away with me to the northern marshes, but the Word -- even the Word of a little, naked, hairless Manling -- is the Word.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "There will be neither Manling nor Wolf-cub when that hunting is done, but only dry bones."

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Flathead, telling him that he is wise and strong and beautiful, and this same old Flathead believes and makes a place, thus, for this same stone-throwing Manling, and -- Art thou at ease now?

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open."

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "When we met at Cold Lairs, Manling, I knew it," said Kaa, turning a little in his mighty coils.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Thy trail ends here, then, Manling?" said Kaa, as Mowgli threw himself down, his face in his hands.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Stand back, Manling; and hide you, O Poison People.

    The Jungle Book. 1893

  • Manling mentioned that if a man wanted to marry a woman, he should first ask the father for his daughter's hand.

    latimes.com - News 2011

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