Excerpts from the Book 'The History Of Caliph Vathek':

... houris, and not less seducing, who never failed to receive with caresses all whom the Caliph allowed to approach them for he was by no means disposed ...
... but in the meantime I shall be horribly disgusted by a crowd of smatterers, who will come to the trial as much for the pleasure of retailing their ...
... of these forfeitures, which found sufficient employment for the eunuchs, gave them such a smell of singed hair as greatly to disgust the ladies of ...
... vigilance, and be sure look well to my Circassians, who would be more to his taste than all of the rest. The bird of the morning had thrice renewed his ...
... distance from the accursed chasm. The body-guard of eunuchs was detached to measure out the lists intended for the games, and prepare ringles for the ...
... without making the least reply, acquiesced in his mother's proposal, and repeated as he went: Nefarious Giaour! where art thou! hast thou not yet ...
... repast flagons of wine and vases of exquisite sherbet floating on snow. He availed himself without scruple of such an entertainment and had already ...
... moment thou art in possession of the talismans which are to open to thee the mineral kingdoms and the centre of the earth itself, fail not to despatch some ...
... still standing, and, with hands crossed upon their bosoms, preserved a respectful silence. Vathek in the midst of this curious harangue, seized ...
... when a low whispering just reached his ear it came from the dwarfs who were returned to their old occupation, and for the nine hundred and ninety-ninth ...
... small plates of abominations for regaling the rest. This prince, on seeing so many mouths put in motion, began to think it time for employing his own ...
... the glen but, instead of coming up to the light, she found herself surrounded by darkness, excepting that at a considerable distance a faint spark glimmered ...
... the Caliph noticing, asked: Is that then your Gulchenrouz? Sovereign of the world? answered she, spare my cousin, whose innocence and gentleness ...
... we are fed with a wretched diet. If you be dead also, and are come hither to join us, I pity your lot for you will be stunned with the noise of the ...
... arrived in ten days at Samarah. The Princess Carathis was engaged at chess with Morakanabad, when the arrival of these wood-fellers was announced. She, ...
... tales, and laughing at Bababalouk, who related them but no sooner did the outcry of his guards reach him, than he flounced from the water like a carp, ...
... by an excessive profusion of tears, had so far exhausted the radical moisture, that their eyes shrivelled up in their sockets, and their hairs dropped ...
... thou art, withhold thy useless admonitions thou wouldst either delude me, or art thyself deceived. If what I have done be so criminal as thou ...
... thou art now in the abode of vengeance and despair thy heart also will be kindled, like those of the other votaries of Eblis. A few days are allotted ...
... and screams that could not be smothered. All severally plunged themselves into the accursed multitude, there to wander in an eternity of unabating ...