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“Is she original? Is she piquant? I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!”

Women seem to surround and attend to him as the houris do to the devout immortals in Islam’s paradise.

“The riders came into the hall, disarmed and removed their riding gear, revealing themselves as women more beautiful than the houris of Paradise.”

Hurriya is the Arabic word for “freedom,” and is the plural of houri, the dark-eyed virgins that suicide bombers are promised in the afterlife.

These celestial virgins we commonly call houris, but learned and accurate Mr-Lane terms them hooreeyehs, vividly suggesting that the Muslim saints burst into rapturous and prolonged hoorays on first perceiving them.