Word: turk
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...stood and glowered like a Turk...
...think my new companion was a Turk; at least, he spoke English with only a slight brogue. He laid me on a marble slab. I imagined myself a dead and unknown body waiting in the "Morgue" for identification, but was soon reminded that I could still experience sensation by the ill-bred behavior of my foreign friend. He assaulted me with a combination of blows, rubs, hot and cold water, and soap, and wound up by asking me if I wanted a "plunge." Passing over his insolent conduct in silence, I requested him to produce his "plunge." I descended...