The venerable Patriarch's harem is close by, where he received, with much distinction, some of the members of our party.
Following upon this decision came a series of visits paid by the Princess of Wales to the wives, or harems, of certain distinguished Egyptian gentlemen, and, finally, to the harem of the Khedive.
When they do appear, they are conveying, closely shut up, the harem of the sultan or some pasha, and then they are accompanied by black eunuchs with drawn sabres.
The lattices are dense and impervious to all view, leaving only one minute aperture, to which the inmate of the harem applies her eye when she wishes to contemplate the busy and living picture continually before her.
Our illustration represents the master of the harem indulging in his favourite recreation.
This central portion is the residence of the sultan; the left wing contains the harem of his establishment, and the right the various offices of his household.
Ismail Ayoub was sent up because he did not treat one of the cast-off wives of the old Khedive (whom he was forced to marry) with proper respect; so this wife got up a harem intrigue, and he was exiled.
It is quite a danger to pass through the yard of the Palace on account of the turkey-cock (though he has a harem of five); he killed two of his children the other day.
It could easily be brought to the boil again; and the despoiling of a haremby Europeans --the harem of an important man--would be oil thrown onto the dying fire under the tempestuous teapot.
According to his lights, he's right not to allow any interference with his harem from Europeans.
And to interfere with the inmate of a harem is just about impossible.
She didn't want to get off the boat to see irrelevant painted pavements, in the harem of Aknaton's royal palace, and her laziness won, when the vote was taken.
So we did, almost literally put our heads together across a table no bigger than a handkerchief, in my cabin: and decided that the visit to Rechid Bey's harem must be made by Brigit and Monny in the late afternoon.
Mabella Hânem had been snatched in haste from Asiut, but if she were still in Luxor with her husband, she and her women in the harem would be guarded by eunuchs, as in the more ambitious villa which Rechid called his home.
Could our hearts let in such a harem of dear friendships, the mere changes and recurrences of grief and mourning would be intolerable, and tax our lives beyond their value.
When the harem had departed he turned sadly to his son.
Thus, in the very midst of "Christian" Europe a quasi Turkish harem system has developed.
The stallion met us as we approached as if to challenge all intruders on his domain, but we met him defiantly and he turned aside and permitted us to examine his harem and its frolicsome colts.
Little by little as we edged in he grew impatient, and finally trotted out boldly as if determined to forsake his harem and rush the line.
Arab girls before they enter the harem and take the veil are a curious sight to behold.
He would freely discourse, too, on his own domestic affairs, giving us anything but a pleasing picture of Arab harem life, which he described as 'a veritable hell.
I was fetched to one harem after the other, always followed by a dense crowd, to the apparent annoyance of my hostesses, who, however, seemed powerless to prevent the intrusion.
His eldest son was paralysed and bedridden, and he had adopted as heir to his position in Dhofar a nephew, who lived in a separate wing of the castle, and had his separate harem establishment.
But this we could not do if we would, for the Esplanade throughout its entire length was lined with soldiers, put there especially to guard the harem first, and later, the Sultan on his pilgrimage to the mosque.
Shortly after we reached the Esplanade, carriages occupied by the women of the Sultan's harem began to appear, coming out from the palace grounds and driving up and down the roadway.
My intercourse with the inmates of the harem was very strained; it was so difficult to keep to the strict rules of etiquette.
Communication between theharem and the outer world is carried on by means of the Dolab, a round, revolving sort of cupboard.
Sultan Selim's goodwill towards Jews was so evident that a story became current that by birth he was a Jew, foisted into the harem as a prince, when he was a child.
Also Jewish women of wisdom and good sense, having skill in medicine, gained great influence by means of theharem under the sultans Murad III, Mahomet IV, and Achmed I.
They would not flee the sill of the great doorway into the outer world if they could, and their only change of locale is to pass from the harem of the husband of their mother to that of their spouse.
The harem is a sumptuous, glorious apartment compared to the simplicity with which the master of the house surrounds himself in his own quarters.
In the harem the Arab woman is cared for with an unthought-of luxury.
All the goods and chattels that their husband values most go to enrich the harem walls and floors.
The harem has been the theatre of their joys since infancy, and they have become so habituated to it that their life of seclusion becomes a second nature.
The second act opens in theharem of Izzet Pasha, governor of the Turkish fortress.
The act closes with the two sleeping side by side, and the women of the harem carrying off the royal treasures.
Mahomet Bassa was, like most of the Turks, a man of Pleasure, and his Harem was furnished with an extraordinary number of choice Beauties.
Some of the rich Agas have Watches, bought or stolen out of Europe; but they are usually spoilt by the Women of the Harem playing with 'em.
I could not enter it because it was occupied by the Harem of Mursa Aga.
To some of these was entrusted the management of the harem of the god, while others were overseers of the remaining departments of his palace.
What I do feel, though, is that a Ladies’ Club is not a big enough reward for having broken away from an Eastern harem and all the suffering that has been the consequence of that action.
No wonder the women cried through the windows of that harem that they wanted to be free!
Chalvar = Turkish pantaloons, far more graceful than the hideous harem skirts, which met with such scant success in this country.
I have every right to go up those harem stairs which you are guarding so carefully, look in all your rooms and cupboards.
The wonder to me is, when one hears what a harem is supposed to be, that European women have the courage to go there at all.
A club, as I said before, is after all another kind of harem, but it has none of the mystery and charm of the Harem of the East.
The members of Parliament all walked towards the harem to this curious direction, “Eyes to the right and nose to the left.
You would by so doing expose her disguise, cause her to be taken up and sent to the harem of some one of the notables, and get heavier irons put on yourself, besides another touch, perhaps, of the bastinado.
The thought of the ladies of the harem somehow suggested his mother and sister, and when poor George got upon this pair of rails he was apt to be run away with, and to forget time and place.
The explanation might lie in this, that Ben-Ahmed, being eccentric in this as in most other matters, afforded the inmates of his harem unusual liberty.
Outram and his party fell in with several bands of fugitives, and actually came up and were obliged to travel a day or two with the harem and escort of Mehrab Khan's brother.
Which is the better portion--bondage bought with a ring, Or a harem of dusky beauties, fifty tied in a string?
The furrows of far-off Java, the isles of the Spanish Main, When they hear that my harem is empty, will send me my brides again.
A man found in theharem of Muato-jamvos was cut in pieces and given, raw and warm, to the people to be eaten.
In fact, there is only a question of degree between an excessive haremsystem and our own code of propriety which lays restraints on women to which men are not subject.
Out of this two different forms of wedlock have come, the harem system and pair marriage.
They were of different grades and ranks and were supposed to entertain the god as harem women entertained princes.
They are kept long in the harem and dressed in girl's clothes for the same protection.
The Governor was delighted with his toy, and took it off to his harem with great exultation.
The rooms of the harem reminded me of an English nursery rather than of a Mahometan paradise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
