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Of course I made mistakes - once or twice I was just plain ignorant of things that I ought to have known, like how to chew a majoon* (* Green sweetmeat containing bhang) when Pir Ali offered me one (you have to spit into your hand from time to time, or you'll end up poisoned), or how to cut a sheep-tail for curry, or even how to sharpen my knife in the approved fashion.
Fiancée 2010
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The one thing that might have aroused enmity was Charlie Tang's crusade against the smoking of opium and majoon.
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The opium smokers had their purchases measured out for them in the front of the store and then went to the rear to sit or recline comfortably while they smoked opium, or if majoon, the blend of opium, hemp, and hellebore, was their preference, smoked, chewed, or ate it.
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The one thing that might have aroused enmity was Charlie Tang's crusade against the smoking of opium and majoon.
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Sometimes an individual rages out of control because of opium, or hashish, or that devil's blend of them, majoon, but few of those cases reach the police.
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Sometimes an individual rages out of control because of opium, or hashish, or that devil's blend of them, majoon, but few of those cases reach the police.
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The opium smokers had their purchases measured out for them in the front of the store and then went to the rear to sit or recline comfortably while they smoked opium, or if majoon, the blend of opium, hemp, and hellebore, was their preference, smoked, chewed, or ate it.
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Of course I made mistakes - once or twice I was just plain ignorant of things that I ought to have known, like how to chew a majoon* (* Green sweetmeat containing bhang) when Pir Ali offered me one (you have to spit into your hand from time to time, or you'll end up poisoned), or how to cut a sheep-tail for curry, or even how to sharpen my knife in the approved fashion.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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Of course I made mistakes — once or twice I was just plain ignorant of things that I ought to have known, like how to chew a majoon* (* Green sweetmeat containing bhang) when Pir Ali offered me one (you have to spit into your hand from time to time, or you'll end up poisoned), or how to cut a sheep-tail for curry, or even how to sharpen my knife in the approved fashion.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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In addition to its being used in the shape of pills, it is frequently mixed with hellebore and hemp, and forms a mixture known by the name of majoon, whose properties are different from that of opium, and may account in
treeseed commented on the word majoon
Main Entry: ma·joon
Pronunciation: m&-'jün
Function: noun
: an East Indian narcotic confection that is made of hemp leaves, henbane, daturaseeds, poppy seeds, honey, and ghee and that produces effects like those of hashish and opium __Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary 2002
July 25, 2009