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Example sentences for "hareem"

Lexicographically close words:
hardy; hare; harebell; harebells; harebrained; harelip; harem; harems; hares; harf
  1. Doubtless similar apartments for the hareem exist in the recesses of the palaces of Fez, Mequinez, Marrákesh and Rabat.

  2. Supposing, however, that the damsel who has at last found admittance to the hareem does not, after all, prove attractive to her lord, she will in all probability be sent away to make room for some one else.

  3. Within her royal hareem serves my wife, And with her mistress leads a happy life.

  4. The keeper of the Hareem stands before you!

  5. My child, the night is far advanced; yet still Thy restless steps pace through thy hareem chill.

  6. Storks sit at peace among the women of the hareem who come for their afternoon airing to the flat roof-tops of Moorish houses.

  7. The ladies are shown over some hareem that they would enter less eagerly did they but know the exact status of the odalisques hired to meet them.

  8. Also, as was natural, he piled up great stores of gold, and took to his hareem the women he desired, and oppressed the poor and the rich, so that many men cursed him privately.

  9. Yet some few lights of the hareem were not disposed to be extinguished altogether by considerations of etiquette, and passed hurriedly along, as though bent upon avoiding us and uncertain of our exact direction.

  10. Some of the ladies of the hareem had handsome features which the absence of expression rendered valueless.

  11. The inmates of the Sultan's hareem had the advantage of gardens, into which their rooms opened.

  12. Muttering some unscriptural phrases against the protection given by the Sultan to the infidels, he directed Azora to be consigned to the women of his own hareem until her cause could be submitted to the Sultan.

  13. And summoning his attendants, he directed them to conduct her to the hareem in the palace.

  14. The Nawab had no wife, and no hareem of any kind.

  15. The Nawab would hardly send his hareem here, when other ferries are open.

  16. But it was rejected peremptorily; and when the old dame returned a few days afterwards with some valuable offerings, she found herself warned never to enter the precincts of the hareem again on a similar errand.

  17. It is true that the inmate of the hareem knows nothing of the wild liberty (as it seems to her) that the European woman enjoys.

  18. Also to make him a friend of Hajji's, as Hajji sends Curtain his daughter to him at the end of the Hareem scene.

  19. Gaoler says he fears Sheikh's litter gone, but could procure him a chair out of Sultan's palace used to convey the lesser women of the [Changed to a stretcher Hareem when Sultan travels.

  20. His admission during the presence of members of the king's hareem was a very unusual and high honour: the mention of the wine will be explained in the next chapter.

  21. The hareem carriage of a man of importance has not only its eunuch, but also its sais, or running footman; often two of them.

  22. Hareem carriages (that is, ladies' carriages) in Cairo are large, heavily built broughams.

  23. It was the hareem of the Minister for Foreign Affairs; their carriages were waiting below.

  24. From the comparative privacy of the buildings, and from the character of the sculptures, it appears probable that the left or western arm of the cross formed the hareem of the monarch.

  25. The care taken with respect to the direction of the passages in the royal hareem has been noticed already.

  26. The Sultan heard him, and so did the Ministers of State; the women of the hareem heard him, and so did the civil guards and the soldiers.

  27. But although the conception is poetical, to one who has lived many years in the East, it appears a conception, not a description of the real hareem life, even among the noble and wealthy of those lands.

  28. Or some lady from a high-class hareem will dress in her servant's clothes and come to the dispensary, posing as a poor woman who cannot afford a piastre (2d.

  29. These members had been cut off in a rage by an infuriated son-in-law, who declared that this woman had intrigued with his wife in allowing another man to enter the hareem in his absence.

  30. There is one family in Mosul who boast that their hareem have never visited any other house.

  31. Doubtless he wished to procure for himself and his hareem some European clothing, without the expense of buying it.

  32. In almost every house card-playing forms the chief pastime both in the hareem and amongst the men, and, as a rule, they play for money.

  33. A man may be as vile as he likes himself, but the moment he suspects one of his hareem of misconduct there is nothing but death, or mutilation which is worse than death, for the offender.

  34. One day, however, my husband told the head of the house that I was very anxious for the ladies of his hareem to come and see me.

  35. This hareem is a most exceptionally happy one.

  36. In this case the head lady of the hareem has been a widow for some years, and is still wearing her black mourning dress.

  37. The wailing went on in the hareem for seven days, and was terrible to hear.

  38. The only place we could find for them which would be hareem was a large room which we used as a wood-house.

  39. These latter they much appreciated, asking permission to carry away some for other members of the hareem to taste.

  40. After becoming acquainted with the ladies of this hareem I was very anxious to obtain permission for them to come and visit me.

  41. It is hareem etiquette to address mothers by the names of their children.

  42. The ladies of this hareem were particularly well informed.

  43. Marriages of slaves from the khalif's hareem occur more than once in the Thousand and One Nights.

  44. The negress went out, and silence followed, for those other lesser ladies of the Basha's hareem were more obedient to the commands of Fenzileh than to those of the Basha himself.

  45. Not eighteen years in the Basha's hareem had stifled the European mother in her, the passionate Sicilian woman, fierce as a tiger in her maternal love.

  46. Sicilian spirit in her that not all these years in the Basha's hareem had sufficed to extinguish.

  47. Too long already hast thou queened it in my hareem with thine infidel, Frankish ways," he muttered, so that none but those immediately about overheard his angry words.

  48. Statue in the hareem at Khorsabad (after Place).

  49. On the lower plinth of the chief door of the hareem there figured on the enamelled bricks a lion, an eagle, a bull, and a plough; at the turn of the angle stood the king.

  50. The group of chambers situated in the northern angle (C) was especially isolated and removed from the others; it was the hareem or women’s apartments.

  51. The hareem demanded another teacher, and Mrs. Lieder was sent out.

  52. In 1840 Victoria sent to the hareem a portrait of herself, which was carried in procession and hung with proper honors by the side of that of the pacha.

  53. The hareem sent back a similar box, and Nas-lee herself worked a scarf for the queen.

  54. Soon after, we find this indefatigable woman teaching English, French, drawing, and writing, in the hareem of a late Governor of Cairo.

  55. All the Hareem here believe it, and the man's human wife swears she waits on her like a slave, and backs her husband's lie or delusion fully.

  56. There are a good many things about hareem here which I am barbarian enough to think extremely good and rational.

  57. Hareem is used here just like the German Frauenzimmer, to mean a respectable woman.

  58. I intimated that English people were not accustomed to some words and might be shocked, on which he said, 'Of course I not speak of my Hareem to English gentleman, but to good Lady can speak it.

  59. Yesterday was Bairam, and lots of Hareem came in their best clothes to wish me a happy year and enjoyed themselves much with sweet cakes, coffee, and pipes.

  60. The hareem of Mustapha Abou-Abeyd has two children with bad eyes.

  61. To-morrow is the smaller Bairam, and I shall have all the Hareem here to visit me.

  62. They are shocked at the way Englishmen talk about Hareem among themselves, and think the English hard and unkind to their wives, and to women in general.

  63. I called Omar and said, 'I trust there are olives for the honourable Hareem of Seleem Effendi--they are needed there.

  64. I were a rich man and could marry one English Hareem like that I would stand before her and serve her like her memlook.

  65. Two hundred men are gone out of our village to the works and of course the poor Hareem have not bread to eat as the men had to take all they had with them.

  66. His respect for the Hareem did not, however, induce him to refrain from strong language.

  67. Fancy Sally as Hareem of the Sheykh-el- Beled of Luxor!

  68. On the following morning he rose when the Mueddin called for the first prayer, and the guardian of the hareem allowed him to pass the door and to climb the steep steps to the roof.

  69. So Tsamani went down to the hareem of his father's house, where his mother passed most of her day lying on soft cushions and eating sweets and contradicting his father's other wives and favourites because she was above them all.


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