Take a piece of hasheesh as large as a grain of barley, or drink a small measure of rose-colored wine.
A defender of the use of hasheesh scientifically employed, M.
Giraud, who conceives that it is possible to induce ecstasy at will, and to regulate it by medical doses, writes us with enthusiasm: “A bit of hasheeshdispenses with painful mystical expedients to induce ecstasy.
Fitzhugh Ludlow narrates, in The Hasheesh Eater, the dreams that visited him in the brief interval between two of twenty or more awakenings, on his walk homeward after his first experience with the drug.
Now for the first time I experienced that vast change which hasheesh makes in all measurements of time.
Hasheesh dreams, because they so often occur during some momentary lapse from normal consciousness and are therefore measurable by its time scale, are particularly rich in the evidence of the looping of time.
I wouldn't have any hasheeshin the mixture for them.
And the chorus of laughter, which is part and parcel of a hasheesh jag, was tremendous.
What he meant by this only the hasheesh smokers know.
There is a curious mental condition sometimes produced by large doses of hasheesh which might be termed double consciousness more correctly than the state to which the name is usually applied.
The extraordinary sense of prolongation of time which occurs in the intoxication produced by hasheesh is probably due to the fact that under the influence of the drug the brain works very much faster than it habitually does.
On leaving Damascus, the Demon of Hasheesh still maintained a partial control over me.
As near as I can judge, this must have been three o'clock in the morning, rather more than five hours after the hasheesh began to take effect.
It seemed, indeed, a palace compared with the circular hasheesh huts by which it was surrounded; and in that direction, accordingly, we bent our steps.
There is a little hasheesh (grass), with two or three young tholukh-trees.
In the afternoon a large valley opened, amidst a mountainous region; after traversing which, we pitched tent in a small open space surrounded with hills, with a snug valley of hasheesh near at hand.
There was no herbage for camels to-night, but we had brought a little hasheesh with us.
P'raps they'll top off a fine dinner with a little hasheeshor proosic acid.
Blount and Hanna were to arrive at the House of the Crocodile for a close look at the young ladies, when the latter had gone to sleep under the influence of the hasheesh they intended to smoke.
In less than an hour he arrived, and when he had listened to her account of what had happened, he said after a minute's reflection that the ladies had almost surely gone with Bedr to some hasheesh den, or a place masquerading as such.
They have chased hasheesh smugglers, and have seen desert fighting.
I thought afterward it might have been only their plan to see the hasheesh den; but since then I've realized it was something else.
He had done no wrong in engaging a carriage to wait outside the Ghezireh Palace gardens, and bringing his employers to the best place in Cairo for the hasheesh smoking.
Not even Biddy had felt certain that there was a secret motive for taking the girls to the hasheesh den, or that Bedr had been guilty of anything worse than indiscretion.
You've jot a hasheesh den upstairs, above the public show rooms.
Had he merely been officious and indiscreet in guiding the girls secretly to the House of the Crocodile, and there procuring hasheesh to buy them dreams, or had he wanted something to happen, in that house, which had not happened?
Bedr had told Rachel stories of the fascination of hasheesh smoking, and had said that no stranger knew Cairo who did not visit one of the "best houses" where hasheesh, though forbidden, was still secretly smoked.
Even this did not suggest to Biddy a visit to a "hasheesh den," for various other plans had been broached and discouraged by "Antoun.
The hasheesh which the camels ate this evening was brought us from the encampment of yesterday.
There are also scattered over the sand, on the west, a hundred or more of hasheesh huts, made of straw and palm-branches.
Two little girl-slaves were barbarously whipped this evening for eating hasheesh (herbage), which they picked up on the roadside.
Many of the people live only on dates and hasheesh (herbs).
Two Ambroises appeared to be in him: one served his lady, spoke with her; the other from afar contemplated with the ecstasy of a hasheesh eater his counterfeit brother.
I talk for an hour, elaborating that one phase ofHasheesh Land, and at the end I have told them nothing.
Take Hasheesh Land, for instance, the land of enormous extensions of time and space.
And when I cannot tell them this one thing of all the vastness of terrible and wonderful things, I know I have failed to give them the slightest concept of Hasheesh Land.
Indeed of many cities have I dreamt but of none fairer, through many marble metropolitan gates hasheesh has led me, but London is its secret, the last gate of all; the ivory bowl has nothing more to show.
And the impudent liar quotes General Grant, General Mitchell, the Rebel General Lee, General McClellan, and Doctor Mott of this city, all shouting in chorus the praises of the Hasheesh Candy!
He gave a dinner, and there was such a time as the Hasheesh Club never saw before nor since.
It was not till the car had gone three blocks farther that Vanderhuyn guessed, from the golden hair, that this was Perdue, the brilliant "Baron Bertram" of the early days of the Hasheesh Club.
I said he was the center of the circle of young men about the Hasheesh Club ten years ago; and so he was, though, to tell the truth, he was then but about twenty-one years of age.
He took the last car uptown, and he who had been two hours before in that brilliant company at the Hasheesh was now one of ten people riding in a street car.
Just as Charley went into the door of the clubhouse--you remember the Hasheesh clubhouse was in Madison Avenue then--just as Charley entered he met the burly form and genial face of the eminent Dr.
First he resigned the presidency of the Hasheesh Club.
He thought if he should have to stay here long he would like to distribute a box of his best brand among these smokers, so as to give the room the odor of the Hasheesh Club.
And so Charley's Christmas Eve dinner at the Hasheesh Club was spoiled.
That everybody knows who knows him now, and that we all felt who knew him earlier in the days of the Hasheesh Club.
Little did they know that at that moment the presidency of the famous Hasheesh Club appeared to Charley the veriest bawble in the world.
When Vail came to the Hasheesh Club for the first time it was on the occasion of Charley's majority dinner.
Speaking seriously, the prohibition may lessen the amount of hasheesh consumed, and undoubtedly has raised its price considerably--vices are the monopoly of the rich.
He wants to make you say afterwards that you got a lot of funny sensations out of it, and then he'll say there was no hasheesh in it at all, and just laugh at you.
I've got some tobacco prepared with hasheesh upstairs.
And the more interesting because you have never had any hasheesh at all.
And this is perhaps the primary reason why Percival Lake did ultimately take to hasheesh in sober earnest.
They don't admit that they smoke hasheesh or have ever smoked it if they can help it, and it cannot always be spotted.
After smoking the hasheesh he had heard the Sphinx talking.
Nominally," said Brookes, "there is no hasheeshin Egypt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hasheesh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
