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
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
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
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
