houdah

• “Thinking then of the fair Egyptian, insensibly his gait became slower, and at length fell into the merest loiter, until finally he could discern a curtained houdah, and two persons seated within it.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “From the houdah the slave brought her a crystal goblet; then she said to Ben-Hur -”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “Presently, raising the curtain of the houdah, she spoke to Ben-Hur, who sat his horse near by.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “While the slave restored the tent and wares to the box under the houdah, and the Arab brought up the horses, the three principals laved themselves in the pool.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “A little later, full into view swung a duplication of his own dromedary, tall and white, and bearing a houdah, the travelling litter of Hindostan.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “A houdah on the animal, besides being unusually large, was of crimson and gold.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “So the purple of the far mountains became intensely deep and rich if she distinguished it with an exclamation of praise; and when, now and then, the curtain of the houdah fell down, it seemed a sudden dullness had dropped from the sky, bedraggling all the landscape.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “In the houdah, the old man moved to escape; but he was hampered with age, and could not, even in the face of danger, forget the dignity which was plainly his habit.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “He threw the curtains of the houdah up, looked at the sun, surveyed the country on every side long and carefully, as if to identify an appointed place.”

  Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

• “Just type "g houdah" to search Google for the word houdah.”

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