| 单词 | hubble-bubble |
| 例句 | In the hubble-bubble the pipe is so contrived that the water in the bowl makes a bubbling noise while the pipe is being smoked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z He must have been in no hurry to leave this spot, where he dreamily puffed at his hubble-bubble and watched the play of the fountain. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z The restrictions include the nargile, or hubble-bubble pipe, which is popular among locals and tourists. Syrian smoking ban takes effect 2010-04-21T10:20:00Z We crawled up in front of a coffee-house where a lot of turbans and fezzes were gathered outside, over tiny cups and hubble-bubble pipes; then we stopped. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Dr. Jackal was sitting with his hind legs crossed, and smoking a hubble-bubble. The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India His inseparable companions were a hubble-bubble at his left, and a sitar on his lap; and from his throat flowed song unceasing. My Reminiscences Again there was a long period of stillness, broken only by the hubble-bubble. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Of course, he could not have shared the repast with me,—all the holy water of Ganges could never have washed out so deep a defilement,—but he accompanied my hookah with his hubble-bubble. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 There he was still, sitting in his den and smoking a hubble-bubble. The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India Pa, sitting holding his exhausted hubble-bubble, was as though he had no existence at all. Nocturne This mighty difference in the manner of clearing the water-chamber of a hubble-bubble will no doubt impress the minds of intellectual Occidentals as a remarkably important and valuable piece of information. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama The hubble-bubble passed from mouth to mouth, and the crew whiled away the evening hours with their monotonous chants. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore But the "narghile," the "kaleoon," the "hookah," the "hubble-bubble," whence came they? Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 We could see in the middle of the little camp a man seated on a rug and wrapped in a heavy garment of some kind, quietly smoking a common hubble-bubble. Mr. Isaacs 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. Nocturne A live coal is then put on the ball in the chauffoir, and the hubble-bubble is handed from one to another, with the best relish imaginable. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831 It's very good of her to take the trouble— But we don't know what she means by "hubble-bubble"— No doubt it's an expression la mode. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Several mosquito-tormented, sleepless wretches were consoling themselves by pulls at their hubble-bubble pipes; and above all, there rose those variations on the mode Bhairab! Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore 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. Autobiography of a Yogi The women are in the habit of enjoying the hubble-bubble, in groups, in a similar manner. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831 The inhabitants of this coast are a harmless race, but have their own little peculiarities; and one of the greatest luxuries in life in the opinion of a Delagoan is smoking the 'hubble-bubble.' The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue He had none of the sleepiness and fatalistic languor of the fat hubble-bubble smoking Turk of caricature. In the Wilderness Lucy knew it for a hubble-bubble or Turkish pipe, and saw that the lips were in a brown face, with big black eyes, round which dark bluish circles were drawn. Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe 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. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain He dwelt, afar from noise, in company with the Moorish charmer, a thorough woman to the manner born, who pulled at her hubble-bubble all day when she was not eating. Tartarin of Tarascon |
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