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A man standing up on the houdah of an elephant may pass under it without touching the foliage.

I went up to it in state, passing through lines of elephants, an hundred on either hand, covered with cloth of gold and with houdahs of yellow silk roofed with the glory of peacocks.

From the houdah the slave brought her a crystal goblet; then she said to Ben-Hur, "I will be your servant at the fountain."

While the slave restored the tent and wares to the box under the houdah, and the Arab brought up the horses, the three principals laved themselves in the pool.

Thinking then of the fair Egyptian, insensibly his gait became slower, and at length fell into the merest loiter, until finally he could discern a curtained houdah, and two persons seated within it.