kalian
Example Sentences
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One kalian artist who abandoned paint and canvas altogether was Ettore Bugatti.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Another pipe-bearer lighted the kalian at intervals and handed it into the carriage to his master.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
They have brought along the kind old Kahn's kalian and tobacco-bag, and the wherewithal to make me a parting glass of tea.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
They want to know whether the people smoke kalians and ride horses—real horses, not asps-i-awhans-in Yenghi Donia, and whether the Valiat smoked the kalian with me at Hadji Agha.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
