hubble-bubble

How To Use hubble-bubble In A Sentence

• When that was finished he would take his hubble-bubble and puff away at that, until he was ready to go downstairs and play billiards, after which it was off to bed.
• He fusses around, entertaining me, making herbal tea for our sandwiches, showing me his hubble-bubble throat exerciser. The Times Literary Supplement
• The tea-house was theoretically for men only, but women and men smoked the hubble-bubble together.
• Sometimes it's called a hubble-bubble because smoke is drawn through a lower vessel of water which cools it. SNOWLINE
• After dinner in a Persian restaurant a few nights ago I asked for a ghalyan - a water pipe known in other parts of the Middle East as a shisha or nargila or to westerners as a hubble-bubble.
• The Jordanian-born of the Sahara Cafe has flavoured tobacco called shisha and smoking vessels called argeeleh or hubble-bubbles in his shop.
• It had been tapped that morning, said one, offering me a drag on his hubble-bubble and a handful of tart green apricots from a nearby bush.
• 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. Excerpt: The Warlord's Son by Dan Fesperman
• Alternatively, take a seat at one of the open-air pavement cafés for a cool beer and perhaps try a nargileh, the hubble-bubble pipe so popular in this part of the world.
• We reclined, Bedouin-style, on rugs and cushions to doze away the fiercest heat of the day, while young Arab men puffed on hookahs - the traditional hubble-bubble pipes for smoking sweetened tobaccos.