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  • proper noun A lakeside village in Staffordshire, England.
  • proper noun A male given name

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Examples

  • We need not become “hot and bothered,” to use a phrase Rudyard Kipling coined in 1923, about failing to discern the proper antecedent or failing to use the subjunctive with the conditional, but we can coolly remain on guard.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • We need not become “hot and bothered,” to use a phrase Rudyard Kipling coined in 1923, about failing to discern the proper antecedent or failing to use the subjunctive with the conditional, but we can coolly remain on guard.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • We need not become “hot and bothered,” to use a phrase Rudyard Kipling coined in 1923, about failing to discern the proper antecedent or failing to use the subjunctive with the conditional, but we can coolly remain on guard.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • We need not become “hot and bothered,” to use a phrase Rudyard Kipling coined in 1923, about failing to discern the proper antecedent or failing to use the subjunctive with the conditional, but we can coolly remain on guard.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • An excellent instance of this is to be found in Rudyard Kipling's story of "The Cat That Walked ..." where the repetition of words acts as a sort of sedative until one realizes the beginning of a fresh situation.

    The Art of the Story-Teller 1915

  • Without a word Rudyard waved him away, a sudden and unaccountable fury in his mind.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Without a word Rudyard waved him away, a sudden and unaccountable fury in his mind.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Perrhaps this will always be the way it certainly was in Rudyard Kipling’s day

    Tommy this, an' Tommy that Newmania 2007

  • Perrhaps this will always be the way it certainly was in Rudyard Kipling’s day

    Archive 2007-11-25 Newmania 2007

  • The last gave details of tests made on a horse called Rudyard as recently as September, when October was in Australia.

    For Kicks Francis, Dick, 1920- 1965

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