Men were astounded when they beheld the Padishah appear with a handful of armed men amidst the raging tempest, and permitted him to enter the gates of the Seraglio in peace.
The Sultan shivered in every limb, and immediately afterwards the clocks in the Seraglio began to strike; they struck eleven.
When Sultan Mahmoud lost his favorite damsel so strangely, Milieva was brought into the Seraglio instead.
But the youths of the Seraglio repelled every onset.
The Kislar-Agasi bowed deeply, and beckoned to the serving-women of the Seraglio standing behind him to come forward.
It was now morning, the uproar of the rebellion had died away outside, the Seraglio was no longer besieged.
They cannot be expected to storm the Seraglio for nothing.
Nevertheless, I shall stand at the gates of the Seraglio on a silver pedestal.
He did nothing all day but teach the pages of the Seraglio games and exercises, and at home he made paper birds for his own little boy, flew kites for and played blind man's buff with him.
The clocks in the rooms of the Seraglio struck a quarter to ten.
The crowd, with an involuntary homage, made way for her everywhere from the Seraglio to the Seven Towers, and two torch-bearers walked by her side, between whom she marched as proudly as if she were making her triumphal progress.
English artillery would lay both it and the Seraglio in ashes in half an hour.
From what I have heard of the seraglio of the King of Persia, many forms observed in it are the same as in the outer apartments.
There are in the seraglio female officers of every description.
I felt convinced that within the walls of the seraglio many interesting antiquities were concealed from observation; and I was not disappointed.
We will keep this door shut for a short time, in order to describe theseraglio gardens more minutely; and afterwards open it, to gratify the reader's curiosity.
Small as they are, they constituted, until lately, the whole of the seraglio gardens near the sea, and from them may be seen the whole prospect of the entrance to the canal and the opposite coast of Scutari.
They were sitting together one morning, when the cries of the black eunuchs, opening the door of the charem, which communicated with the seraglio gardens, announced that these ladies were going to take the air.
We now quitted the lower garden of the seraglio and ascended by a paved road towards the chamber of the Garden of Hyacinths.
Meredith's brain was quite tired when it wrote some of its most quoted and least interesting epigrams: like that about passing Seraglio Point, but not doubling Cape Turk.
In the mere intellectualism of the matter, Meredith seems to be talking the most brutal sex mastery: he, at any rate, has not doubled Cape Turk, nor even passed Seraglio Point.
I belong to another community, and it would be intolerable usurpation for me to affect such authority, where I conferred no benefit, or even if I did confer (as in some degree the seraglio does) temporal advantages.
The seraglio of Constantinople is as equitable as we are, whether Catholics or Protestants,--and where their own sect is concerned, full as religious.
Then after the departure of Panchasikha, the Brahman dwelt in woman's clothes in the seraglio of his beloved, and became her trusted confidante.
This old dilettanti of the sex was so much engaged between his seraglio of the Parc-aux-cerfs and Du Barry that he knew less of what was passing in his palace than those at Constantinople.
Never were there more intrigues among the female slaves in the Seraglio of Constantinople for the Grand Signior's handkerchief than were continually harassing one party against the other at the Court of Versailles.
Close to Santa Sophia in the Seraglio grounds is the old Byzantine Church of Saint Irene, now painted an ugly pink, and used by the Turks as an armory and museum.
I distributed cigarettes, which were received with smiling gratitude, and went on my way to Seraglio Point, realizing that there is truth in the saying that every Turk is a gentleman.
The long shriek of a siren from a steamer near Seraglio Point tore the gloom.
Hidden in the Old Seraglio there are many treasures, among them the magnificent Persian throne, which is covered with gold and jewels.
Their account of its introduction is, that a Vizier, named Cara Mustapha, first noticed among the herbage of the fields this hitherto neglected flower, and decorated the garden of the Seraglio with it.
This collection of Ranunculus flowers was carefully preserved in the Seraglio gardens alone, and only through bribery did at last some few roots find their way into other parts of Europe.
The walls of the Seraglio are like the walls of Newstead gardens, only higher, and much in the same order; but the ride by the walls of the city, on the land side, is beautiful.
We anchored between the Seven Towers and the Seraglio on the 13th, and yesterday settled ashore.
To the left is the Seraglio Point, or superb palace of the Sultan, whose treasures almost realize the fables of romance.
When we had finished the inspection ofSeraglio Point, we were conducted to one of the reception rooms and refreshed with a jam made of rose leaves, and this was followed by Turkish coffee.
Not far from theSeraglio I noticed a row of large vaults.
After we had passed the Seraglio Point and neared the harbour, the city appeared to encircle the sea and close around us.
We were just turning round the Seraglio Point, and even under the cold threatening sky that hung over the town, it was a glorious sight.
The beautiful old Seraglio that formerly adorned this splendid site was burned down a few years ago.
Harem means sacred, and is that part of theSeraglio which is assigned to the women.
Even the rank of Kildare, which is but that of a slave ruling other more unfortunate slaves, could not have prevented my only daughter from being dragged away to the seraglio of that monster.
Before you strive to haul that girl away to your already crowded seraglio against her will, listen to me.
Praying that it would work noiselessly, he slid open a panel of stone and found himself looking through a semi-transparent hanging into the sacred precincts of the seraglio itself.
But to Ibrahim the seraglio was neither a prison nor a tomb.
When they reached Bab‐el‐Saadet, that gate of the city leading from the Seraglio grounds to the space before the Agia Sophia, they met the glorious sultan “whose throne is in the heavens.
Pietro Zen records seeing them together often in a little boat with but one oarsman, and says they would land at Seraglio Point and wander through the gardens together.
It is a triangle, about three Italian miles round, wholly within the city, at the end of the promontory Chrysoceras, now called the Seraglio Point.
The ladies of the seraglio are a collection of beautiful young women, chiefly sent as presents from the provinces and Greek islands, and most of them the children of Christian parents.
And it also possible that Madam Campan was correct and that the house she refers to as sold for a "bag of gold" was another of the several of the seraglio establishments of Louis XV.
Since the death of the Marquise de Pompadour, the King had no titled mistress; he contented himself with his seraglio in the Parc-aux-Cerfs.
The point beyond us on the left," said the guide a few minutes later, "is calledSeraglio Point.
The stream of water to our left," he added as our steamer rounded Seraglio Point, "is called the Golden Horn, so named on account of its curved shape.
That is the Mosque where the Sultans and their families went to prayer when they resided in the Seraglionear by.
Then they tried their best to frighten the old tutor, by suggesting various deadly schemes of vengeance, which it was very possible the ladies of his late highness's seraglio might form against Moley Pasha.
He gave the word as he spoke, and out from the seraglio marched Jack and Harry Girdwood, their arms tightly bound to their sides, between a strong escort of armed men.
The angel of sleep had spread her wings over the seraglio of Moley Pasha.
What cry was that which startles the seraglio from its siesta?
It was the preconcerted signal, and springing to her feet, Komel stole quickly to that part of the seraglio wall nearest the water.
It was at this calm and quiet hour that a caique, propelled by a dozen oarsmen, shot out from the shore of the Seraglio Point, and swept round at once with its prow turned towards the open sea.
But let us look back for a moment at the scene on the other side of the seraglio wall where we left the guard overcome by the boy.
It was but a few hours subsequent to the scene which we have just described, that Komel was again seated in the seraglio gardens on the gentle slope where it curves towards the sea.
Who was it that sang that song beneath theseraglio walls?
They came evidently from beyond the seraglio wall, and from some boatman on the river.
Use the contents as you will, and when you have need of further assistance, if there be aught that one possessing some influence can serve thee in, present that purse at the gates of the seraglio gardens, and you will find me.
Thus saying, he turned his eyes towards the little point of land that jets out towards Asia from the Turkish city, known asSeraglio Point, a fairy-like cluster of gardens and palaces marking the spot.
It was one of the queer odd freaks that he was so often performing, for what purpose no one knew, and there he hung still, while the slave listened and cast anxious glances at the stone wall that forms the sea side of the seraglio gardens.
Solomon, according to the same chronology, was nineteen years of age, and was then forming his seraglio of wives and concubines.
And thus in the gray of the morning they moved across the waters to Seraglio Point, where Abdul Aziz, but an hour ago a sovereign, now found himself a prisoner.
The old Jew had never hoped for a sight of a seraglioso carefully guarded; it seemed to him that his head was swimming.
A Don Juan among fair works of art, a worshiper of the Ideal, Elie Magus had discovered joys that transcend the pleasure of a miser gloating over his gold--he lived in a seraglio of great paintings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seraglio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
