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Example sentences for "hookah"

Lexicographically close words:
hoofed; hoofmarks; hoofprints; hoofs; hook; hookahs; hooked; hookers; hookes; hooking
  1. I need not recapitulate the events which had occurred, and which, now refreshed by his bath and breakfast, and with his aunt's own hookah specially provided for him, Abbas Khan related with animation.

  2. Twas a pity it vanished so soon, brother," said Abbas Khan, as he went to his hookah again, and the gurgling murmur succeeded.

  3. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.

  4. You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put its hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

  5. He lay on the sofa with his hookah in his left hand; near him was the table, on which stood the Morning Growl, and some eight or ten letters, only one or two of which had as yet been opened.

  6. Titmouse; and taking the tip of his hookah from his lips, and holding it in the fingers of his left hand, he leaned forward, staring open-mouthed at Gammon.

  7. I will see, my son," he said again as he turned to the door leading to his own apartment where he would take a few pulls at the hookah before he should give himself up to his afternoon rest.

  8. The hakim, still squatting, slid over his hookah with a friendly foot, and Kim pulled at the good weed.

  9. The sahib knows what talk over a hookah is, each one trying to show great knowledge; but it is whispered at such times that the Missie Baba, who fears neither horse nor spirit, comes here at night.

  10. Swinton took a deep draft of the perfumed air that drifted lazily from pink-cheeked oleander and jasmine; then he cursed, for a brackish taint of hookah killed in his nostrils the sweet perfume.

  11. We sat down cross-legged on cushions before him, and as near as we could get, so that it seemed as if we three were performing some sacred rite of which the object was the tall hookah that stood in the centre of our triangle.

  12. As I turned into our tent after we got back, I thought I would go and sit there when I had bathed, and send for a hookah and a novel, and go to sleep.

  13. But come out into the air, your hookah is blazing, and so are the stars.

  14. The old maharajah sat cross-legged upon a great pile of dark-red cushions, his slippers by his side, and a huge hookah before him.

  15. I called the servant and ordered my hookah to be refilled.

  16. The face of the old maharajah betrayed great emotion, but he bravely pulled away at his hookah and tried to think over the situation.

  17. The fashion of the hookah or narghyle in India has long disappeared from the English portion of society.

  18. As we neared the door there was a strong smell of rosewater and native perfumes and hookah tobacco--the indescribable odour of Eastern high life.

  19. Silent and for the nonce perfectly happy, I slowly inhaled the fragrant vapour of tobacco and aromatic herbs and honey with which the hookah is filled.

  20. One of the most beautiful pieces of work is a kalian or hookah (for smoking tobacco) of brass open-work, with turquoise and other ornamentation.

  21. George Foster," he began impressively, at the same time applying a light to his hookah and puffing sedately, "you will be glad to hear that I have been successful with my suit to the Dey.

  22. The Moor smiled very slightly at the youth's vehemence, pointed with the mouthpiece of his hookah to a cushion, and bade him sit down and tell him all about it.

  23. He found his master seated, as was his wont, with the hookah before him, but with the mouthpiece lying idly on his knee, and his forehead resting on one hand.

  24. You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth, and began smoking again.

  25. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.

  26. Off he went and when he reached the house he was welcomed very politely by his daughter's father-in-law and given a seat and water to wash his feet, and a hookah was produced and then the following conversation began.

  27. So put that in your hookah and smoke it, tintacks, and give me the other tube.

  28. So he picked up one of the snaky tubes of the great pipe, and put the amber mouthpiece between his lips; and there for an hour the pair of them squatted on the divan, with the hookah gurgling and reeking between them.

  29. The implements used in smoking tobacco, from the rude pipe of the Indian to the elaborate hookah of the Turk, show a far greater variety than even the various species of the tobacco plant.

  30. Some of the Egyptians use a form of hookah called the narghile or nargeeleh--so named because the water is contained in the shell of a cocoanut of which the Arabic name is nargeeleh.

  31. The stiff-stemmed Turkish pipes, quite different from the flexible tube of the hookah and narghile, are of two kinds, the kablioun or long pipe, and the chibouque or short pipe.

  32. Only the choicest tobacco is used with the hookah and nargeeleh; it is grown in Persia.

  33. The hookah is in all respects the most expensive and elaborate machine (for so it may be called) used for smoking tobacco.

  34. An attendant brought forward a splendid embossed gold hookah two feet high and placed it before the throne.

  35. I light a cigarette and Bechan pulls out the clay head of a hookah and fills it with coarse native tobacco.

  36. Mohammed Ben Ali el Bad was sitting cross-legged in the stern, smoking a hookah and watching the full moon sail slowly up above the Atlas Range to the southwest.

  37. With the hookah gurgling softly at his feet, Mohammed leaned back his head and gazed in silent appreciation at the wonders of the heavens.

  38. Illustration] For some time they looked at each other in silence: at last the caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and languidly addressed her.

  39. You'll get used to it in time," said the caterpillar, and it put the hookah into its mouth, and began smoking again.

  40. He smokes his hookah after both meals and puffs as quietly while his wife scolds him as he did under the fire of the French at Waterloo.

  41. Here there was a burst of mirth at the incongruity of the words with Miss Jinny's ferocious masculine aspect, but she silenced it with a wave of her hookah stem.

  42. Another pipe, with which the hookah is often mistakenly identified, is the "Narghile.

  43. Turkey offers a great variety of pipes, from the humble red clay to the lordly hookah or hubble-bubble--a device of Persian origin for allowing the smoke to be drawn through water in order to purify it before reaching the mouth.

  44. The major is comfortably established on the ottoman, with a newspaper in his hand and the tube of the hookah within his reach.

  45. She turns to obey; but Nicola enters with the coat; and she makes a pretence of having business in the room by taking the little table with the hookah away to the wall near the windows.

  46. Little Turkish tables, one of them with an elaborate hookah on it, and a screen to match them, complete the handsome effect of the furnishing.

  47. The little man stopped to relight his hookah and puffed thoughtfully for a few moments.

  48. I am a little nervous, and I find my hookah an invaluable sedative.

  49. Two great tiger-skins thrown athwart it increased the suggestion of Eastern luxury, as did a huge hookah which stood upon a mat in the corner.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hookah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clay; corncob; hookah; meerschaum; pipe