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  • These apartments receive no light but from the entrance; they are very neat and clean, and contain Bedouin furniture, some good carpets, woollen and leathern sacks, a few wooden bowls, earthen coffee-pots, and a matchlock, of which great care is taken, it being generally kept in a leathern case.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • At the doorway was placed a large copper fire-pan, with coffee-pots singing a welcome to visitors.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • In one corner stood the apparatus of the “Kahwahji,” an altar-like elevation, also of earthen-work, containing a hole for a charcoal fire, upon which were three huge coffee-pots dirtily tinned.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • At Mekka, they make small hearths of clay, (kanoun,) which they paint with yellow and red; these are bought by the hadjys, who boil their coffee-pots upon them.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • What charming knick-knacks appeared from various snug corners, what fascinating toilet-cases and coffee-pots, and how delightfully Varvara Pavlovna herself made the coffee in the morning!

    A House of Gentlefolk 2003

  • Busy maids were running to and fro with glasses and wines, brightly polished coffee-pots, cigars and pipes, cakes and fruit.

    Pan 2003

  • Picking up the tallest of three long, thin brass coffee-pots, he poured the ground coffee into it, followed by the steaming water.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • Picking up the tallest of three long, thin brass coffee-pots, he poured the ground coffee into it, followed by the steaming water.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • We packed away our clothing and the kitchen (the coffee-pots and mortar, one saucepan, the goatskin for water, and a large convex iron pan called a saj for making the flat bread we seemed condemned to live on) and made ready to slip away.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • We packed away our clothing and the kitchen (the coffee-pots and mortar, one saucepan, the goatskin for water, and a large convex iron pan called a saj for making the flat bread we seemed condemned to live on) and made ready to slip away.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

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