Houris definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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The Arabs call them 'houris'--why, I cannot think--for a more uncomfortable thing to sit in, when half full of water in a rolling surf, I never found elsewhere, except on a South-East African river At the present moment the coast below Ras Bernas and above Sawakin is the hot-bed of the slave trade, carried on between the Dervishes of the Nile Valley and Arabia.

—Southern Arabia

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His mother had told him that He was just on the other side of the vest that was now like part of his body, part of his very being; and right next to his skin was Paradise, and there, in Paradise, being looked after by the perfect virgin houris were all his friends and heroes, including his blessed father. — Asimov'sSF,January2007
You can sup with the most delicious houris or with all the street-walkers, in your poems, without ever leaving your fireside or having seen any greater beauty than the nose of your hall-porter. — George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
Harris had promised him dancing houris, secret casinos, and God knows what else, until the poor chap saw his dream yokel walking straight out of the church clinic on one side of the road into the jaws of hell on the other. — The Case of the Late Pig - Margery Allingham - Campion 08 - 1937
They were to bee the houris, and the gardens were to be Paradise. — news.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs
The Arabs call them 'houris'--why, I cannot think--for a more uncomfortable thing to sit in, when half full of water in a rolling surf, I never found elsewhere, except on a South-East African river At the present moment the coast below Ras Bernas and above Sawakin is the hot-bed of the slave trade, carried on between the Dervishes of the Nile Valley and Arabia. — Southern Arabia