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  • Their route lay south to a place called Umballa, a hundred and twenty miles or more.

    Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • If they were not going to the war, at least they did not know what he knew of the talk in the veranda at Umballa.

    Kim 2003

  • So it stands that the boy must go to Umballa — and by rail — for the writing is something urgent.

    Kim 2003

  • Three miles off, on Umballa racecourse, Mahbub Ali, reining a grey

    Kim 2003

  • Mahbub had gone down to Umballa to bring up a fresh consignment of horses, and Kim met him on the Kalka road at dusk riding alone, begged an alms of him, was sworn at, and replied in English.

    Kim 2003

  • ‘A ticket — a little tikkut to Umballa — O Breaker of Hearts!’

    Kim 2003

  • They had gone out together towards Umballa racecourse.

    Kim 2003

  • Therefore I went to Umballa, as thou knowest, but (and this thou dost not know) I lay hid in the garden-grass to see what Colonel

    Kim 2003

  • Kim slipped out behind him; for it flashed through his head that he had heard this angry, stupid Sahib discoursing loud personalities to an old lady near Umballa three years ago.

    Kim 2003

  • They had passed beyond the belt of market-gardens round hungry Umballa, and were among the mile-wide green of the staple crops.

    Kim 2003

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