Old Kala Hanoum's information regarding the fair odalisk allayed the turmoil in Ballaban's breast, in that it gave certainty to his former suspicions.
It required but a moment for her to discover that Morsinia had given her some clue that the man would willingly follow, so she boldly replied: "The odalisk herself has talked to me of these things.
He had no doubt that the Albanian odalisk was the little lady to whom he once made love in the bowers of blackberry bushes, and vowed to defend like a true knight, waving his wooden sword over the head of the goat he rode as a steed.
If there was to be a broad entrance for public display, and then a narrow passage for the Sultan only, why not have a way through which he could imagine a fairodalisk fleeing from insult and torture into the arms of--himself?
Captain Ballaban was among the first to learn of the personality of the odalisk who had escaped at the time of the race.
But he did not dare to be more specific, lest he might run across some caprice of the Sultan; for he felt sure that so beautiful an odalisk as his captive would not long be without the royal attention.
But if you could see the beautiful odalisk who made this!
As the woman took the piece of money she added: "And don't forget that the odalisk said she had dreamed of you since she was a child, and that at sunset if you looked through the phials you would see her face.
And tell the young officer that the odalisk who made this lovely case has dreamed of him ever since she was a child.
He remembered the declaration of the Padishah, that, if ever an odalisk were unfaithful to him, she should be sewn into a bag, together with a cat and a snake, and drowned in Marmora.
Halil Patrona now lost not a moment in locking up his shop, and taking the odalisk by the hand led her away with him to his poor lonely dwelling-place.
They knew well enough what was likely to happen to the man who presumed to buy an odalisk who had been expelled from the harem of the Sultan.
Banfi, embracing the odalisk and pressing a burning kiss on her lips, as if he would have drunk in her very soul.
The Moorish horseman and the odalisk ascend a high funereal mound, the tombstone of which is barely visible through the dependent branches of a weeping willow.
He was just putting on his fur-lined kaftan, for his limbs felt frozen, when the odalisk called to the panther, which was reposing on the carpet.
He caught the slim, supple body of the odalisk in his arms, and pressed her to him with the strength of a boa-constrictor: she was almost stifled in his embrace.
The odalisk appears like a rosy water-nymph swinging on a bright lotus-leaf over a fountain of liquid rubies.
One odalisk swings a cymbal above her head, and dances with audacious leaps and bounds among the rest, who, winding their hands together, weave a magic circle around her.
The odalisk looked into his face and could read there everything which had happened.
The odalisk obediently brought forth the gorgeously-coloured and gilded Venetian glasses, then so much in vogue, and pushed a broad, short-legged table close to the couch.
The guests sorrowfully followed the body of their best friend to Csakatorny.
His kinsmen and friends, hastening to the spot, found the hero in the throes of death by the side of the dead boar.
The odalisk took the pen away with her to her room, and waited from morning to night to see it move.
Suddenly the madcap odalisk army surrounded them, clung on to them in twos and threes, dragged them into the mad waltz, and twisted them round and round at a galloping pace, till the two good old gentlemen had no more breath left in them.
The heart of this odalisk loved to play a manly part, and it was not merely the masculine garb she wore which transformed her, but the masculine soul within her.
The Valideh kissed the odalisk on the forehead, and led her by the hand to the Sultan, who would not permit her to kiss his hand (who ever heard of a lady kissing the hand of a gentleman in evening dress?
Then one fine morning this slow-blooded imbecile of a Bernese goes crazy over an odalisk whom the mother of the Bey had caused to be expelled from the harem.
Had the odalisk lived and had a son, she would have enjoyed the rank of first "Kadun" to the reigning monarch.
Owing to the peculiar costume of the odalisk this disguise is rendered very easy.
The odalisk who appears at the door of the auditorium and walks down through the audience is an exact double of the real odalisk who is standing invisible behind the screen on the board of the cage at the left.
The cage containing the odalisk is raised on a hoisting rope so that it hangs in midair with the doors open.
When the odalisk is to vanish and the caliph to appear he slips in from the board on the outside, while the odalisk takes her place on the board behind the screen.
The curtains of both cages are pulled down, the caliph goes into the cage at the left and the odalisk into that at the right.
The swinging cage appears to be empty and apparently the odalisk has passed through the air to the other cage.
Now a brilliantly dressedodalisk steps into the box at the left.
The false odalisk is then raised in the air in the second cage, through which the audience has been able to see up to this time.
While the realodalisk is standing behind the screen on the board of the cage at the left, the caliph installs himself in the cage.
The odalisk held unlimited sway over the mind of Hassan, and could, at will, tune his mind to a good or evil humour by anticipating his thoughts.
The odalisk trembled with rapture beneath the load of that more than earthly sensation of pleasure, and leaping up and stretching her arms to Heaven, she whispered: "I am happy!
The odalisknow drew a small fine steel file from her girdle, and, seizing the Princess's hand, began to file the chain from off it.
If the odalisk was not with him he felt as helpless as a child who has strayed away from its nurse.
The odalisk pressed her companion's hand, and dragged her down along the bushy hillside.
The odaliskfollowed every movement of the young hero with burning eyes.
The odalisklay back upon the bed, while Yffim anxiously paced to and fro like a hyena fallen into a snare.
Give me those scissors," she said to Mariska, and when the latter had returned to her, the odalisk had already let down her flowing tresses.
On hearing these words the odalisk leaped from her seat with a face flushed with joy, while unspeakably tender tears trembled in her eyes.
This was the joyful tidings which the odalisk had received in response to her first prayer, and which had made her so happy.
Hassan frowning, while the odalisk whom he held embraced trembled all over.
Broken in mind and body, theodalisk dragged herself to his knees, and seizing his hand drew it to her breast and to her lips.
This wreath the odalisk fastened together with a lock of her own hair, which signifies: "I surrender my life into thy hands!
The odalisk felt two tear-drops falling upon her cheek.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odalisk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
