Then, with mock emotion: "Might I, dare I, ask you to give to my keeping, that incomparable maiden, that houri of houris, your young and lovely sister-in-law, Miss Ellen Arthur?"
"Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter"
Lawrence L. Lynch
How can you be insensate enough to descend to labour with an houri like that around?
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne
In the confusion which ensued, I heard Quick saying to his master: "No, no, sir; this one ain't no houri.
"Queen Sheba's Ring"
H. Rider Haggard