Shortly after this the Raja's concubine became pregnant, and when her time was come she was delivered of a son, whose features were exquisitely beautiful.
The fact that when a concubine entered the house of a married man her dignity and legal position were less than those of the wife preserved domestic peace and safeguarded the wife's interests.
XXV) he refers to Abraham as a man able to use women as a man should, his wife temperately, his concubine compliantly, neither immoderately.
The corresponding institution of the concubine has been still more deeply rooted and widespread.
In ancient Wales, as well as in Rome, the concubine was accepted and never despised (R.
The ceremony of taking into the royal harem a concubine of rank, which measure is usually connected with some political object, consists in an interchange of presents betwixt the monarch and the parents of the damsel.
In cases where the concubine has a son, in the event of her husband's death, if affairs are properly managed, she has a portion of land set apart for her like any other wife.
We happen to have been personally acquainted with several families in which a concubine had been introduced.
At the next New Year it was reported that the man would not allow his proper wife to go to the ancestral graves, but insisted upon taking his young concubine to do the sacrificing.
The marked neglect which now ensued O'Iwa took in wifely fashion; and attributing it to some passing attraction of Shinjuku Nakacho[u], she did not take it to heart as she would have done if a concubine had been at issue.
The concubine of old Tithonus was now gleaming white on the balcony of the orient, forth from the arms of her sweet friend; her forehead was lucent with gems set in the shape of the cold animal that strikes people with its tail.
She is supposed to be the concubine of Nero mentioned by St. Chrysostom, as having been converted by St. Paul during his residence at Rome.
The Concubine of Al-Maamun Appendix: Variants and Analogues of Some of the Tales in Vols.
In Ko-gu-ryŭ a concubine of King Pong-sang tried to incense him against the queen by showing him a leathern bag which she claimed the queen had made to drown her in.
If there is no son by the wife the son by a concubine succeeds.
He seized the daughter of one of his officials and made her his concubine although she was already affianced to another.
The concubine Tal-geui was wonderfully beautiful, but surpassingly so when she smiled.
Ch‘oe Jung was a son by a concubine and from this time the annals contain no mention of men’s birth on the mother’s side.
She was not long in letting the state of affairs be known at Peking and soon an imperial mandate arrived consigning the concubine and her father to prison.
The king saw through the trick and to punish the crafty concubine had her killed in the very way she had described.
In 1478 the queen died and a concubine named Yun was raised to the position of royal consort.
In 1532 a royal concubine desired to have her son become king instead of the Crown Prince.
When Abner took Rizpah, the concubine of Saul, to himself, Ishbosheth thought that he intended in this way to establish a right to the throne, in order to wrest the dominion from himself, and did not conceal his anger.
Only oneconcubine is mentioned, by whom Saul had two sons.
The concubine of a Levite, so we are told in the book of Judges, who dwelt on Mount Ephraim, ran away from her husband; she went back to her father, to Bethlehem in Judah.
A concubina was an uxor in an inferior degree; the woman was married in both cases with the ring and religious rite, but the children of the concubine could not inherit legally the possessions of their father.
Christendom, informing it that the Council had passed thirteen canons, one of which prevented a layman from assisting at a mass said by a priest who had a concubine or a subintroducta mulier.
His Majesty has always accepted the fiat of his ancestors in recognising the mother who bore him as his own mother, and not an Imperial concubine as his mother.
A Chinaman also takes a concubine into his house for life; he has no idea of enjoying the few fleeting years of her youth and prettiness, and then setting her adrift with a little sum of money.
Under stress of poverty he had sent another concubineinto a convent to be a nun.
There were several judgments upon the interpretation of dreams, which either he himself or some of his mistresses had had; and besides these, there was a series of wanton letters to and from his concubine Monime.
Before the presence of a stranger was made known, he had heard sounds of wassail and of quarrelling,--had seen the abandonedconcubine of the Hojo toying with the common soldiers.
Egged on little by little, piqued by O'Tei's attitude of scornful indifference, the concubine went dangerously far.
Yet having witnessed the passage-of-arms between the ladies, they must know as well as she that the concubine was innocent of the catastrophe.
One evening he woke with chattering teeth, and finding himself alone in the quickly-gathering shadows, stumbled upon his feet, with curses on the concubine in that she deserted him in his extremity.
As has been told, the second wife or concubine of the late Hojo, so soon as her fickle lord grew weary of her, shaved off her hair and donned the Buddhist habit.
The concubine would be speedily forgotten, and it would be as if the shadow of the wicked geisha had never crossed their path.
As Abbess of Tsu, many of the weary or unstable of lofty lineage came to crave counsel of her--lords and dames who would have scoffed at the concubine of Hojo.
As the falling stone increases in velocity, so would the insolence of the concubine unchecked in shamelessness.
The punishment of the concubine was the only reparation possible.
What, after all, if the concubine were right, and Sampei's air of offended dignity a piece of clever masquerading?
Sampei was quite as surprised as the concubineat singular conduct of Nara.
The precise value of the distinction is not readily appreciated, as the concubine does not lose caste by her position.
A national proverb says, "It is more honorable to be the wife of a poor man than the concubine of an emperor.
With him lodges a house-painter who ran away from his wife and three children, and now lives, with his concubine and one child, in a wretched little cupboard.
A favorite concubine holds the same position as a married woman, and no distinction is made between legitimate and illegitimate children.
Tigellinus on the same occasion commanded his chief concubine to take from her own neck an extremely valuable necklace and place it upon that of Crispina.
Her silence that of the concubine of the King of Ch'u.
Ts'u Fei, concubine of the King of Ch'u was much distressed because her lord was of a very wild disposition, and only took pleasure in hunting and such pursuits.
Her resentment is that of the Woman of the Hsiang River; Her silence that of the concubine of the King of Ch'u.
Some say that at the time of his death, or a short time before, he had nominated one of his illegitimate sons to succeed him named Ccapac Huari, son of a concubine whose name was Chuqui Ocllo.
She was a concubine of the Sinchi Tocay Ccapac, and for this reason she had leave to walk about and go into all parts as she pleased.
A woman who had been a concubine of the late Inca, named Ccuri Ocllo, a kins-woman of Ccapac Huari, as soon as she arrived at Cuzco, spoke to her relations and to Ccapac Huari in these words.
He had no help too but to despatch servants all over the place to make every possible search and inquiry for a suitable concubine for him.
But the moment a female slave becomes her master's concubine her bonds are broken, and as soon as a male slave can read the first chapter of the Koran (which contains the creed) he can no longer be held in bondage.
The concubine was usually a slave who had been bought by the bridegroom.
It was a sad sight for Tseng; but a worse blow was that of his concubine carried off almost lifeless before his eyes, himself not daring to utter a word.
Hearing Li's concubinecrying bitterly, he asked how long little Chu had been dead, and she told him seven days.
Seizing the instrument he turned and fled; upon which the concubine shrieked out, "Thieves!
It is not considered quite correct to take a concubine unless the wife is childless, in which case it is held that the proposition to do so, and thus secure the much-desired posterity, should emanate from the wife herself.
Hsi then asked all the traders and commercial travellers to keep a look out for Ta-nan, at the same time raising Ho from the status of concubine to that of wife.
Liao Chai, that a good wife, "who at thirty years of age has not borne a child should forthwith pawn her jewellery and purchase a concubine for her husband; for to be without a son is hard indeed!
His wife dying, he took a second by name Shen, who bullied the concubine dreadfully, and by her constant wrangling made his life perfectly unbearable, so that one day in a fit of anger he ran away and left them.
Ching thanked her and went home, using ten ounces of silver to procure a concubine from a neighbouring family, who was very ugly and ill-tempered.
He then heard the concubine call to one of the slave girls, and bid her go rescue the cockatoo which was being killed; and, hiding himself in a dark corner, he saw a girl come forth with a light in her hand.
Now this landlord had long desired to secure A-ch'ien as a concubine for himself; and, after making no claim for rent for several years, he began to hint as much to her mother.
This term originated with an emperor who reigned in the fifth century, when, in ecstasies at the graceful dancing of a concubine upon a stage ornamented with lilies, he cried out, "Every footstep makes a lily grow.
Yao Niang, the concubineof the pretender Li Yue, who wished to make her feet like the "new moon.
And Saul had a concubine named Respha, the daughter of Aia.
And it was told David, what Respha the daughter of Aia, the concubine of Saul, had done.
The same relation between wife and concubinecomes out with still greater distinctness in the case of Jacob, Abram’s synonym.
He may marry free women, or take concubine slaves, or have of both these classes.
When a concubine slave has borne a child to her master, she becomes entitled to freedom on his death.
A man may have four wives at the same time, and according to common opinion as many concubine slaves as he pleases.
The children by a wife and those by a concubineslave inherit equally, if the latter be acknowledged by the father.
