an amber-mounted hookah (a stake won at cards) and a tobacco pouch (worked, it was alleged, by some countess who had fallen in love with Nozdrev at a posthouse, and whose handiwork Nozdrev averred to constitute the "sublimity of superfluity"-a term which, in the Nozdrevian vocabulary, purported to signify the acme of perfection).
Madeira hark ahosabaia erretzen zuen, zeren saltzaileek, Madeirako ardoa atsegin duten lurjabeen gustuen jakitun, gupidarik gabe nahasten baitzuten ronez, eta batzuetan errege-ura ere botatzen zioten, errusiarraren urdaila dena eramateko gai delako uste sendoan.