Hubble Bubble

Listening to the harsh, monotonous screeching of the cart, he puffs happily at his mud-stained hubble-bubble, lost in broken and distorted memories of the past. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2007)

Pleasantly weary, he stretched out on a rope bed, eavesdropping on his father's guests and supplicants -- smoky, piratical gatherings in the hujera's great room, with hubble-bubble hookahs and high-caliber bandoleers, lulling him to sleep with the streamside murmur of their mutter and growl, and the whine and hum of their radio, beaming news from the great beyond. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Inevitably one made up things like that about Hugh; that was his style; the style of those admirable letters which Peter had read thousands of miles across the sea in the Times, and had thanked God he was out of that pernicious hubble-bubble if it were only to hear baboons chatter and coolies beat their wives. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Already in that early day it was his habit to smoke in bed, and he had made him an Oriental pipe of the hubble-bubble variety, because it would hold more and was more comfortable than the regular short pipe of daytime use. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Tasslehoff closed his eyes so he wouldn't have to see the gnome, but he saw him anyway-his nut-brown face and his wispy hair that floated about his head as though he were perpetually poking his finger into one of his own inventions, perhaps the steam-powered preambulating hubble-bubble or the locomotive, self-winding rutabaga slicer. ❋ Weis, Margaret (2002)

"Sindbad the Sailor, a Joe Meek mountain-man type, one moribund hash aficionado complete with hubble-bubble, and a classic British birdwatcher," Pitkin rattled off in snap appraisal. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)

Alas, no! She entertains a set of lazy bearers, smoking the hubble-bubble around a palanquin as they wait for a fare; and her buksheesh may be a cowry or two. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Ah, ah," said the Chinaman, placing a hubble-bubble before his guest, who condescended to shut the mouthpiece in under his long moustache, while he sat silently for nearly half an hour. ❋ Marjorie Douie (N/A)

All smoke, using sometimes this long-stemmed, small-bowled pipe, and sometimes the water pipe, akin in principle to the Indian hubble-bubble. ❋ Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (N/A)

Turks sitting in the shadow of a little saddler's shop by the street smoking their hubble-bubble water-pipes, and saying words like these: ❋ Basil Mathews (N/A)

Another species of pipe is the narghilé or water pipe; our sailors have christened it the hubble-bubble: it is a species of hookah, consisting of a glass bowl partly filled with water, ❋ John Auldjo (N/A)

I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks. ❋ Various (N/A)

Uncle jumped so violently that his chair overturned, the papers on the desk flew in every direction, and his pipe, a long, coconut-stemmed hubble-bubble, fell to the floor with a great clatter. ❋ Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 (1935)

And on such occasions she would mimic him ridiculingly, to diminish his complaints, while Emmy roughly relighted the hubble-bubble and patted her father once more into a contented silence. ❋ Frank Swinnerton (1933)

Pa, sitting holding his exhausted hubble-bubble, was as though he had no existence at all. ❋ Frank Swinnerton (1933)

He enjoyed smoking at such times, and had made himself a pipe with a large bowl which stood on the floor and had a long rubber stem, something like the Turkish hubble-bubble. ❋ Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 (1916)

Anyhow, they love silence, and speak beautifully, each word falling like a disc new cut, not a hubble-bubble of small smooth coins such as girls use; and they move decidedly, as if they knew how long to stay and when to go -- oh, but Mr. Flanders was only gone to get a programme. ❋ Virginia Woolf (1911)

Lord Stanley was for widening the franchise, but being a Protectionist he could not work with the Peelites; while Lord Aberdeen would not consent to the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and was impossible as a leader so long as the anti-Catholic hubble-bubble continued. ❋ Ed (1910)

[Wanna go] [puff] on [the old] hubbly bubbly? ❋ Filipem (2006)

Hey, are you even listening to what I'm saying? [No, sorry], I was [too busy] winning hockey pools and staring at those sick [hubbly bubblies]. ❋ The Winner2009 (2009)

"I'm out of [hash] do you just want to smoke some [shisha] on my [hubbly bubbly]?" ❋ Mehmehsuckit (2009)

Ah [Bullah] [bullah] budaeas! Death to America. We shall now smoke from the Holy [Hubbly] Bubble of Muhammed. ❋ Kevin Tabor (2005)

[im] [gettin] me some [hubbly] ❋ K (2003)

Wow, that [hubbly-bubbly boy] really makes [me want] to go to that car [dealership] and buy a car! ❋ I<3hubblybubblyboys (2022)