nargileh
Example Sentences
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Then one of the girls, leaving the apartment for a moment, returned with a nargileh of crystal, set by the most cunning artists of Damascus in a framework of golden filigree crusted with precious stones.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
His baffled brain whirled with wild and impracticable combinations, till, at length, frightened and exhausted, he called for his nargileh, and sought, as was his custom, serenity from its magic tube.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Here the sheik often sat of an evening smoking his nargileh.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm
Then, seating himself on the divan, he clapped his hands, and an attendant brought him his nargileh.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Marvellous matters, no doubt, that had to do with nargileh and magic and scimiters and flying carpets and scarcely imperceptible nods to the executioner who always hovered among the draperies in the background.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
