huqqa

Updated: June 7, 2025

Even the remote villagers talked over the victories of Japan as they sat in their circles and passed round the huqqa at night. One of the older men said to me, 'There has been nothing like it since the mutiny'. A Turkish consul of long experience in Western Asia told me that in the interior you could see everywhere the most ignorant peasants 'tingling' with the news.

Lothrop Stoddard - The New World of Islam

So does the patient black man; he smokes his huqqa and keeps an eye on the rising crop. You will have learnt from Mr. You give a cake of the raw material to a coloured servant, you stand over him to see that he doesn't eat it, and your assistant canes him slowly as he squeezes the juice into a blue bottle. Blue pills are made of the refuse; your female servants use aniline dyes; and there you are.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series