nargilehs

At a coffee shop in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Tareek el-Jdeideh, men discuss politics as they smoke nargilehs and play cards.

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"Then we will sit down there, on the broad stone steps at the foot of the murmuring fountain," said Zachur; and in a minute he had spread out his soft carpet, and lighted two nargilehs filled with the costly aromatic herb.

Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Mirza Hassan explains about the kalian and horses; he enlightens his wondering auditors to the extent that Yenghi Donians smoke nargilehs and chibouques instead of kalians, and he contemptuously pooh-poohs the idea of them keeping riding-horses when they are clever enough to make iron horses that require nothing to eat or drink and no rest.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Here the caretaker and his male relatives and friends had evidently been smoking their nargilehs and drinking coffee; our arrival had disturbed them in the midst.

It Happened in Egypt 1889

Under the balcony, Baroni had placed a divan with many cushions, a lamp with burning coffee, and some fresh nargilehs.

Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842

I am not content to live like my fathers in a beautiful palace, amid my woods and mountains, with Kochlani steeds, falcons that would pull down an eagle, and nargilehs of rubies and emeralds.

Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842

A great question; Fakredeen indulged in endless combinations while he smoked countless nargilehs.

Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Bright carpets and rich cushions were thrown about for those who cared to recline; the brothers Farhi, for example, and indeed most of the men, smoking inestimable nargilehs.

Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Tancred, and subsequently told him that the quantity of nargilehs smoked by the young Emir indicated not only a prolonged, but a difficult, controversy.

Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Sheikhs, heads of houses, retiring again to their divans, occupied themselves with their nargilehs, many a mookatadgi mixed with the servants and the slaves, and delighted in preparing this patriarchal banquet, which indeed befitted a castle and a forest.

Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842