Muslims, do you believe "houri" means grapes as some Muslim scholars have interpreted it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

What a cloud of sable curls about the face of a houri!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

A houri, by whose charms my heart is moved to sore distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

She was meeting his eyes intently, the imp replaced by the houri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons] Reference

The houri wore just enough, and no more, to get my involuntary attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash] Reference

What was he to do with his Norfolk Street lady, his barmaid houri, his Norah.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Clerks] Reference

Tell him that Dessa Desplaines, the zwilnik houri, is right here on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Lensman]

One houri in particular drew him, her expression simmering like cloves in hot tea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]

Then he bent his head and covered her lips, kissed her as if she were a houri he owned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideal Bride]

No fervent imagination of the Orient could picture an houri in paradise more attractive.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Lilith and a Daughter of Eve] Reference

It was very like sitting in a bath, and, after the houri, we had to be carried a long way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

"I have been waiting nearly half an houri" exclaimed a breathy, feminine voice from within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daring Deception]

East into the picture, so I made her young and gave her a touch of the languid houri in a veil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

With the liquor taking hold I felt safe among the lights and music, with this delectable houri to hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]

He belonged to no club, and his circle of friends, except in the houri and navvy line, was very limited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Clerks] Reference

In his early youth he remembered to have seen, somewhere in Greece, such a houri as was this Madame Goesler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn] Reference

That houri, appearing, shakes him up in the usual manner and is charged by the old gentleman to remain near him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House] Reference

"True, master, Ageelia she is, but not even so jioble a person as yourself may know more of that;: Tfelr houri.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Night Arrant]

An average Englishwoman would look like an houri amongst them; and their customs were beastly, to use the mildest term.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

The infidel will never cease roasting, whilst the true believer will be eternally seated next to his houri in the seventh heaven!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference

In an instant, the fall of hair transformed her from a frightened English girl to a kneeling houri, waiting to service her master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero Come Back]

He had therefore spent an uncommonly respectable week, and the Norfolk Street houri would have been au d閟espoir, but that she had other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Clerks] Reference

I issued from their hands blooming and beauteous as an houri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself] Reference

I had rather it war my puir Zorah than any strange houri of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Telemachus] Reference

Miss Pim, Clarence goes off to another houri, whom he fascinates in a similar manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

Here is a houri, neatly dressed, evidently long waiting for him especially, and eager to serve him.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Easy Chair — Volume 01] Reference