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  • “Al-Búdikah” afterwards used (Night dcclxxix) in the sense of crucible or melting-pot, in modern parlance a pipe-bowl; and also written “Bútakah,” an Arab distortion of the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “This is interesting,” said Sanderson, with his finger in his pipe-bowl.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • "You remember Von Junzt makes mention of a so-called Bran cult," said Clemants, stuffing his pipe-bowl with a peculiarly villainous brand of shag tobacco.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • I had found a nice piece of birch-root that I wanted to carve to a pipe-bowl in the shape of a clenched fist; the thumb was to act as a lid, and I wanted a nail to set in, to make it specially lifelike.

    Under the Autumn Star 2003

  • His only reply was a scornful examination of his pipe-bowl.

    The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

  • But yesterday was my birthday, and my wife presented me with a pipe-bowl with Schill's portrait; my daughter says he is the best-looking man in the world, and she has bought a locket with his portrait, which she is wearing on her neck.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • One sting in particular, on a big vein in his leg, gave him excruciating pain, and though he applied the universal veldt remedy of nicotine from his pipe-bowl, the agony was so great and the swelling so alarming that at length he hobbled off to the professor's tent to see if that learned man could give him some relief.

    A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell

  • As he did so, his fingers shook so that the match bobbed against the pipe-bowl, and it was very manifest that he was undergoing a great strain.

    A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns

  • Then Cleon opened a mahogany box in one corner of the room, and took out of it a pipe-bowl of red clay, into which he fitted a flexible tube five or six yards in length and tipped with amber.

    The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Various

  • Barbes pipe-bowl he was not a genuine red-hot Republican.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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