I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [What Sri Aurobindo wrote about community presages The Mother’s Auroville Charter] Reference
Hey Merc talk about hubble-bubble views of history. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices Online] Reference
Pa, sitting holding his exhausted hubble-bubble, was as though he had no existence at all. From Wordnik.com. [Nocturne] Reference
The hubble-bubble passed from mouth to mouth, and the crew whiled away the evening hours with their monotonous chants. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
This hubble-bubble (which was of most primitive make and consisted of a cocoa-nut and two sugar-canes) was common property. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
Lucy knew it for a hubble-bubble or narghilhe, and saw that the lips were in a brown face, with big black eyes, round which dark bluish circles were drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe] Reference
Oblivious of the hurly-burly and hubble-bubble around me, my lodgings a hodgepodge and my few ragbag possessions strewn about higgledy-piggledy, I find that my life has turned to nada. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Nocturne] Reference
The placenta thing is all a bit hubble-bubble, like some old crone cooking up a poultice, but if it does no harm then it may help a player - even if he just thinks he's getting better more quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Arseblog] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
They seemed delighted of an evening to see him snug in his high-backed chair by the fire; and one would run and bring his slippers and warm them, another pulled off his shoes, while a third brought his wine, and a fourth his hubble-bubble. From Wordnik.com. [As We Sweep Through The Deep] Reference
A hubble-bubble of epithets, some only half erased, some doubtfully erased, that it was impossible, out of the various readings, to pick out the true classical text. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
"O, Susy, what a hubble-bubble we make in the water!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple] Reference
"Yes; puffing away at his old hubble-bubble. From Wordnik.com. [Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East] Reference
"hookah," the "hubble-bubble," whence came they?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850] Reference
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