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  • Bassam and I smoked a narghileh while awaiting his brother.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • Through the irregular mortar holes I could see fragments of narghileh bases and crockery.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • It was at the very end of the street, a fast-food joint that offered a decent narghileh, or water pipe.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • He refilled his narghileh and began quietly smoking at it.

    Further Foolishness Stephen Leacock 1906

  • I filled his narghileh for him, and he began to suck blue smoke out of it with a certain contentment, while the rose water bubbled in the bowl below.

    Further Foolishness Stephen Leacock 1906

  • The noble sheik, of undoubtedly Asiatic origin, came to the doorway overlooking the assistant director's work on the narghileh.

    Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Merton Gill sat cross-legged on the divan and became fearful that he would be asked to smoke the narghileh which the assistant director was now preparing.

    Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Presently the young man removed the golden mouth-piece of the narghileh from his lips and regarding Mr. Middleton fixedly, remarked:

    The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

  • A low, musical laugh greeted this remark and the laugh resolving itself into a low, musical voice that bade him enter, Mr. Middleton found himself in a small boudoir of oriental magnificence, facing a young man in the costume of the Moslem nations, who sat cross-legged upon a divan smoking a narghileh.

    The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

  • With a red velvet cap on my head, loose paijamas, an embroidered vest, a long flowing silk gown, and coloured handkerchiefs scented with attar, I would complete my elaborate toilet, sit on a high-cushioned chair, and replace my cigarette with a many-coiled narghileh filled with rose-water, as if in eager expectation of a strange meeting with the beloved one.

    The Hungry Stones and Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore 1901

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