hareem

1 I have conversed with several European ladies who had visited hareems, and they have all confessed their inability to convince the Eastern wives of the unhappiness or hardship of their state.

2 Dimples, polished limbs, dark, long-lashed eyes, and an indolent step are the ideals of the hareem.

3 And when the talk fairly got going, she tossed her problem about Bertie Willis and his hareem into the vortex to see what would come of it.

4 My job is just to sit, it seems, And act the silent super's rôle, The while I wish myself, with all my soul, Safe back in one or more of my hareems.

5 At the back of the sheykh's court is the stairway to the hareem, the entrance masked by a gayly colored curtain.

6 I see that a good respectable Turkish hareem is an excellent school of useful accomplishments—needlework, cookery, etc. 

7 "I'm turned out of the hareem," she said, apropos of the mention of him, "in disgrace."

8 If he asked you, in his innocently shameless way, to belong to his hareem, you boasted of it afterward;—jocularly, to be sure, but you felt pleased just the same.

9 Ramadan took the hareem under his special and most respectful charge, and waited on us devotedly, but never raised his eyes to our faces, or spoke till spoken to. 

10 There is no door to the cabin, so we nail up an old plaid, and, as no one ever looks into a hareem, it is quite enough. 

11 She is rich and much respected, and received in all the best houses, where she sits with the men all day and sleeps in the hareem. 

12 The Shah allows him a palace, but he is shorn already of half his hareem.

13 Once installed, this has become a hareem, and I may defy the Turkish Effendi with success. 

14 In the great hareems, the hanum generally has four principal attendants, two of whom are elderly, and act simply as companions; the third is the treasurer, and the fourth is the sub-treasurer.

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

16 Occidental travellers are always curious about the hareem.

17 Because if there is not, then I had rather go back to the hareem than live as I do now imprisoned in glass—with all of life in sight of me and none in reach.

18 He was separated from his wife, and she was an inmate of Pharaoh's hareem; but he kept his secret, and no one betrayed him.

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

20 This is called the "hareem," and no man, except the master of the house, is allowed to go into it.

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