kalian

Example Sentences

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One kalian artist who abandoned paint and canvas altogether was Ettore Bugatti.

From Time Magazine Archive

While my volunteer cook is thus busily engaged, a company of distinguished travellers passing along the road halt at the tchai-khan to smoke a kalian and drink tea.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas

The Mustapha is found seated on the raised floor of his open-fronted office, examining, between whiffs of the kalian, papers brought to him by his subordinates, and I hand him my general letter of recommendation.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

On arriving at a station they dismount, take a hasty cup of tea which is in readiness, and a few pulls at the kalian, or water-pipe.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

A neatly dressed attendant squats himself down on the shady side of the tent outside, and at ridiculously short intervals brings me in a newly primed kalian and a samovar of tea.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas