V Instead of tears, wild laughter The old hot passions after, The houri sweets that dafter Made flesh and soul a slave!
Where haze-like creatures with smooth houri forms Stoop thro' the curling clouds and float and smile, While calm as hope in all her dreamy charms Sleeps the enchanted isle.
And where, in lichened hoariness, The broken marble dial-plate Basks in the Summer's sultriness, Rich houri roses palpitate.
In the sweet spring a grassy bank I sought, And thither wine, and a fairHouri brought; And, though the people called me graceless dog, Gave not to Paradise another thought!
They preach how sweet those Houri brides will be, But I say wine is sweeter--taste and see!
Now bring me dancers, wine, and a houriwith charming, ravishing features--if houris there be.
One week he would consort mainly with the houri of the Norfolk Street beer-shop, and the next he would be on his good behaviour, and live as respectably as circumstances permitted him to do.
He belonged to no club, and his circle of friends, except in thehouri and navvy line, was very limited.
He had therefore spent an uncommonly respectable week, and the Norfolk Street houri would have been au désespoir, but that she had other Charleys to her bow.
Mohammed, who became more and more downcast, was beginning to fear that he would be unable to prove to me the full extent of my disgrace, when suddenly the swift approach of my houri to her window betokened something fresh.
By the tomb of the Prophet, I scarce think that the houri who shall present to me the diamond cup of immortality will deserve so warm a caress!
Tell me at once, and as a true man, whether this sublime lady of whom thou speakest be other than the houri with whose assistance I beheld thee sweeping the chapel at Engaddi?
So she, this houri from Paradise, was pleased to meet him!
This is a houri straight from Paradise you have brought me.
The lovely lady Sun-Tree dancing like an houri in the breeze, waving her delicate plumes and swinging her gay bells with their hairs of tongues, while her coarse mate, rooted by his heavy frame to the earth cursed and groaned.
Yet she could not take her eyes away from this dusky sorceress spinning in fire this houri of terrible loves and hates.
So she played a lively measure and sang the following verses: There's a hourihealing passion [with her kiss], Like a sapling or a wild gazelle at gaze.
Then he beckoned to the slender girl and said to her, "O houri of Paradise, feed thou our ears with sweet sounds.
What difference 'twixt the lewd and him whose bedfellow A houri is, for looks a very sorceress.
In his early youth he remembered to have seen, somewhere in Greece, such a houri as was this Madame Goesler.
Never once did he look in the direction of the houri peering through the sliding panel.
Agreed," replied the one addressed, "but she will never be yourhouri in paradise, Lovitsch?
If my houri escapes, your head shall be forfeit," cried her captor, an officer, to a common soldier who was holding his horse.
The thing is impossible; since, if the houri be in the sunshine of your good eye, you have no arm on that side to embrace her; and if you embrace her with the arm you have got, you have no eye on that side to look upon her beauty.
Perhaps my chosen houri in paradise is only flashing her beauty upon my soul from these fair earthly faces, and so training me first to love her as an ideal, that the joy of the realization may be perfect.
In a coffee-shop at Esne, bold-faced among the men, sat a coarse courtesan sipping coffee and smoking a nargileh, whose kohled eyebrows and eyelashes made her a houri of hell.
It was an electric chain of communication, and never until some Xenobi of a houri hands the Howadji the nargileh of Paradise, will the smoke of the weed of Shiraz float so lightly, or so sweetly taste.
You never saw such eyes in your life; what a houri she is!
A houri in stays,' the lady who was a Pole described it.
With ears deafened from the guns we went home; passing on the way a booth of green branches in which Moors and Christians, overcome either by the heat or by the assiduous ministrations of Houri or Vivandiere, were laid out on sacks.
Girls accompanied each group dressed in appropriate Houri costume, carrying bottles filled with a liquor which would have pleased Omar rather than Mahomet.
Marquis in broken sentences,--for he was dazzled by the transcendant beauty of the houri who seemed to encourage him in the aspirations which he had formed.
They can regard her as a Mohammedan ward or a houri or a Princess of Babylon, just as they choose.
You are like a Houri that has been sent away from Paradise for misbehaviour," I said.
I dropped like a plummet straight from a pea-green grotto full of lilies of the valley, maiden's hair ferns and ambrosia-breathed houri to the fire-scorched cliffs ringing the mouth of the Bottomless Pit.
As you have said,--a hundred purses for such an houri of the Franks.
Iftikhar prepares his band to go to Antioch, and swears he will take this houri with him, that she may see the fate of her dear Franks with her own eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "houri" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adventuress; courtesan; houri; odalisque; temptress; vamp; vampire
