Deenarzade, the former leading the head camel, the latter using my chibouque stick as a staff. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He found his highness reclining upon a divan, his back supported by cushions, smoking latakia in a chibouque, while an icoglan scratched the soles of his feet, and two slaves fanned him. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then came a servant with a chibouque and coffee: and the head negotiators were soon co-operatively engaged. ❋ Various (N/A)
So thought I and my two friends as we sat smoking the chibouque of reflection, at that best of Smyrna's cafés, on the French quay. ❋ Various (N/A)
In virtue whereof he was now mounted on the arm of an easy-chair, with a long _chibouque_, which became the gravity of an incipient bachelor better than a cigar, and took upon himself to give Thornhill (who was really a clever fellow, and professing to be reading for a first) some advice as to his conducting himself when his examination should arrive. ❋ Various (N/A)
Here we sat drinking sherbet, and, of course, smoking the unfailing chibouque. ❋ Various (N/A)
Each person contributes from the leathern bottles and bags at his saddle-bow a portion towards the general mess, which is prepared by a certain number of the party in turn; and while it is being made ready, the others having said their evening prayers and performed their ablutions resign themselves to the soothing influences of the chibouque, if not prohibited, and to the cordial of coffee, if they have any. ❋ John Milton Mackie (N/A)
After this age the diameter of the cigarette increases year by year; and when a lady has reached the mature age of twenty-four, no one sees anything remarkable in her smoking a modest little chibouque as she sits on the lower divan of the harem. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)
"Allah is great and Mohammed is his prophet -- do I know him?" he repeated, taking a long draw at his chibouque as if to calm his nerves, while he lay back for a moment motionless amid his cushions. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Of those Turkish pipes which are used in Egypt, Mr. Lane, after mentioning the narghile and the chibouque or "shibuk," says: -- ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)
The thirsty Arab approaches the dealer, and for a modest sum he gets his drink and goes his way; unless he prefers to go inside the café, where he may get several drinks and linger over them, sitting on a mat with his legs crossed and smoking his _chibouque_. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Hour after hour I sat there that night, smoking a chibouque, reading, and listening to the batteries and lamentations of that haunted air, shrinking from it, fearing even for the _Speranza_ by her quay in the sequestered harbour, and for the palace-pillars. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Algerian Rais calmly smoking his chibouque on the deck of his poleacre, many Sardinians, Tuscans, Jews, and three Russians. ❋ Unknown (1901)
Some of them solaced themselves with the chibouque, as they sat with the comfort which can only be acquired after years of practice on the humps of their camels; the others, though silent and quiescent, did not look bored. ❋ Lewis Hough (1899)
Slatin Bey read the letter, and received him courteously, motioning him to a seat on the divan, and ordering him a chibouque to smoke, and coffee. ❋ Lewis Hough (1899)
It was a convenient establishment, where you could get a meal, or a bottle of wine, or even beer, if you would pay for it, or simply take a chibouque or narghile, and a cup of coffee or a sherbet. ❋ Lewis Hough (1899)
You might ask widely for what you needed, for study or for play, and you would find it, though it were a deep divan of Osiat or a chibouque from Stamboul -- you would find it in one of these simple whitewashed halls. ❋ Unknown (1899)
I am no admirer of a big cigar in a woman's mouth, or a short clay; but I know of nothing more graceful or enjoyable than a cigarette, and even more so in the narghíleh, or even the chibouque, which, however, is quite a man's pipe. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)
And Cuthbert brought the chibouque to his uncle's side. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
More and more lovely it grows next day, as we pass Samsoon, celebrated throughout the East for chibouque tobacco; Sinope, memorable as the place where the first blow of the Crimean War was delivered; and, on the morning of the third day, Ineboli, the "town of wines." ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
