kalian
Example Sentences
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One kalian artist who abandoned paint and canvas altogether was Ettore Bugatti.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Thomas Stevens
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
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 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
