houri

• “His passion for revenge was even more determined than his admiration for the "houri," as he called the maiden.”

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• “Muslims, do you believe "houri" means grapes as some Muslim scholars have interpreted it?”

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• “And beyond his star-gazing, in his far-imagined heavens, Valkyrie or houri, man has fain made place for her, for he could see no heaven without her.”

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• “There is nothing carnal intimated at all in the relationship between the righteous soul and the “houri”.”

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• “She'd worn uncommon well; middle sixties and still shaped like a Turkish belly-dancer, with the same guileless idiot smile and wondrous blue eyes that had set me slavering when she was sixteen - she'd performed like a demented houri then, and who was to say she'd lost the taste in half a century?”

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• “It was in this spirit that I was able to roger that houri in Borneo during the Batang Lupar battle, whimpering fearfully the while, and do justice to Mrs Popplewell while in flight from the outraged townsfolk of Harper's Ferry.”

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• “My one regret as I tooled back to London was that I hadn't been able to bid a riotous farewell to Caprice; she'd been worth the trip, ne'er mind spoking Otto's wheel, and I found myself smiling fondly as I thought of Punch and the gauzy lace clinging to that houri shape in the sunlight ...”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “Ilderim grinned and wagged his ugly head, and I cursed, thinking here was some bazaar houri plying her trade where it was least wanted, but I staggered out, and sure enough at the foot of the steps was a veiled woman in a sari, but with a burly-looking escort standing farther back at the gate.”

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• “Till you're blue in the face, you darling houri, thinks I - but for answer all I did was kiss her hands.”

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• “The light over her bunk flicked on and he was staring into the muzzle of an automatic, held rock-steady by this little houri.”

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