nargileh

Example Sentences

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Here the sheik often sat of an evening smoking his nargileh.

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm

Coffee and nargileh discussed, my host moved an adjournment to the roof of the palace, where, he said, I should obtain a better view of his father's city.

From A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán by De Windt, Harry

A favorite way of passing the evening is to sit in front of one of these establishments, watching the passing throngs, and smoke a nargileh, this latter requiring a good half-hour to do it properly.

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

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

This nargileh, whose hue betrays Perique from soft Louisiana, In Egypt once beguiled the days Of Tewfik's dreamy-eyed Sultana.

From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various