nargileh

Example Sentences

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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

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

If the Pasha of Damascus were to go himself, the Bedouins would unveil his harem while he was smoking his nargileh.'

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

He would, had it served his purpose, have smoked a pipe, but it would have been the jewelled nargileh of the Grand Mogul.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose