Everything was so Oriental that, had I stayed there a little longer, I should not have been surprised to see myself sitting cross-legged on a divan smoking a narghile.
"In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875."
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
Some were playing games similar to our chess and backgammon, while others were looking on, and smoking the gurgling narghile, or water-pipe.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
His meal over, the young Turk stretches himself on the floor in true Eastern style, and begins carelessly to smoke a narghile.
"Bohemians of the Latin Quarter"
Henry Murger