The beautiful young woman was abducted from the seraglio. From LearnThat.org.
I did not omit this opportunity of learning all that I possibly could of the seraglio, which is so entirely unknown amongst us. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e]
The seraglio is a vast inclosure, occupying nearly the entire site of the ancient city of Byzantium, and embracing a circumference of five miles. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference
Indeed, when Ruth waited a moment before spelling "seraglio," Rosa in her haste blurted out the word, and Julia smiled and there was a little rustle of expectancy. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
Seignior, in the seraglio, and in the divan of the sublime. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
A threat that savored more of the seraglio than of the throne!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But the ladies of the kings seraglio were his principal customers. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
You have turned your house into a seraglio, as birds are kept in a cage. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Near one of the seraglio gates is erected a large wooden house, where many a disobedient. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Constantinople had from the windows of his seraglio heard him play upon the kettle drums. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Englishman; more a courtier than a king; and fitter to be a page in the seraglio than either. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
He was enamoured of Baherjoa, whose beauty was superior to that of all the wives in his seraglio. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The hen-coop was opened, and the sage seraglio with their sultan prudently pecked about for food. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Yet mostly their lives are as hidden from Western eyes as the inner sanctum of an 18th-century seraglio. From Wordnik.com. [An Arab Woman Lifts The Veil] Reference
The fact that the sultan wears French boots and supplies his seraglio with the latest Parisian modes signifies nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The males are used as mutes and eunuchs in the seraglio, as clerks in the offices of state, and as soldiers in the army. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
This is peculiarly visible in the neighbourhood of the seraglio, where Irene's palace is supposed to have formerly stood. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
I can place implicit confidence in the discretion of my servants -- who wait on us like mutes in a seraglio: consequently. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
The ship sailed close under the lofty wall of the seraglio garden, which is separated from the sea by only a narrow wharf. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Having searched through the Arab tribes, they discovered and presented her before the king in the courtyard of his seraglio. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
But Providence, that ever takes care of its own, did ever prevent all these from performing at once, or the grand seraglio of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Then, letting the book slip from her fingers, she gazed into space, as listless as a lady immured in a seraglio on the Bosphorous. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The eunuchs bore away Urad to the seraglio, taking her through by-ways to the palace of the Vizier, lest her shrieks should be heard. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The strongest imaginable probability is, that instead of wearing the diadem of France, his head would have figured on the spikes of the seraglio. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
In a few hours they reached the palace, and Urad, being conducted to the seraglio, was ordered to be dressed, as the Vizier intended visiting her. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
It is impossible to count the vessels which lie on the water from the seraglio point to the suburb of Eyoub and the delicious valley of the Sweet Waters. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
Love also, as it arises now in an Eastern seraglio, was not unknown to them; the passion of Phædra for Hippolytus, as painted by Euripides, is a proof of it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
The seraglio, with its vast peninsula, dark with plane-trees and cypresses, stood forth like a promontory of forests between the two seas which slept beneath my eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
As soon as, by our restoration to our pristine forms, we were apprised of your victory over the enchantress Ulin, I found myself in the seraglio of my father's palace. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Harassed by these painful and afflicting considerations, he lost his repose and his health, and his nurse, who still remained in the seraglio, was alarmed at this change. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Sir Walter Besant is lord of his own East End, and of that innocent seraglio of delightful and eccentric young ladies to which he has been adding for years past Sir Walter. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Further inland was another islet, devoted to his seraglio, within whose recesses each of his favorites inhabited her separate establishment, after the fashion of the natives. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
We dispatched our surgeon, but it was found impossible to admit him into the sacred precincts of the seraglio, and he returned with the information that the rajah was asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
Early in the morning the Sultan arose from his seraglio, and commanded his courtiers to prepare the procession, as he intended immediately to make a public pilgrimage to Mecca. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
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