They have occupied apartments in seraglios, but the beauties have never feared them as rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

India; but they are a thousand times happier in their seraglios than our young women in their convents.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

"We Southern ladies are complimented with the name of wives; but we are only the mistresses of seraglios.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

One bright morning in August, 1864, after a brief rest at Salt Lake, we left Brigham's seraglios for this new El Dorado.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

Minor and Turkey, where they are still much valued as domestic servants or as eunuchs to guard the seraglios of Mohammedan princes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

If women are to be made virtuous by authority, which is a contradiction in terms, let them be immured in seraglios and watched with a jealous eye. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference

A sister of a president of the United States declared: “We Southern ladies are complimented with names of wives, but we are only the mistresses of seraglios.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [DARKWATER] Reference

In those seraglios, where a single powerful warlord might have hundreds of wives, the ones who can catch his eye with their sensuality, and give him sons would gain favor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

With this confusion of ideas, he entered into the city, which he could not in the least recollect: the houses, the temples, the seraglios, appeared under a new form to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

But it was to lead a most dissolute life with their dogs and birds, with their feasts, banquets, marriage entertainments and courtezans, of whom they gathered seraglios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

What time the scarred see-catchie lead their sleek seraglios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Seas] Reference

And I suppose the same conditions obtain in the seraglios of Bali.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference

Parisians of seraglios, were never empty of those who had money to spend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eve of the French Revolution] Reference

Access to the seraglios was had by corresponding arbors leading from the palace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference

This Moon of wives was lodged in two spacious seraglios, which few mortals beheld.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference

They had magnificent palaces, enchanting gardens, seraglios filled with beautiful women.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference

Those unfortunate beings who are chosen by Oriental custom to guard the seraglios undergo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference

Women, in Constantinople, are confined in seraglios for life, or shut up in their apartments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II] Reference

All the world knows what privileges the rare American women doctors enjoy in that land of sealed seraglios.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guns of the Gods]

Their chiefs and princes have, besides, large harems or seraglios where domestic rivalship imbitters existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II] Reference

An arrangement most wise and judicious; precluding much of that jealousy and confusion prevalent in ill-regulated seraglios.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference

I am persuaded, by different circumstances, that Byron could not have been in those sacred chambers of any of the seraglios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Lord Byron]

Moreover, what does it all matter to us so long as our integrity is maintained, our seraglios remain intact, and our coffers are filled?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Track of the Troops] Reference

Walpole says (Letters, i. 215, note) that 'Pope has mentioned his and another ambassador's seraglios in one of his Imitations of Horace.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Of Johnson]

Their lodges, -- each, containing from five to ten families, -- seemed in his eyes like seraglios; for some of the chiefs had eight wives.    From Wordnik.com.  [France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3] Reference

With this view he confiscated on all sides the property of his subjects, whilst his worthy mother stripped the seraglios she visited of the gems they contained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Caliph Vathek] Reference

Even, frequently, when the small-pox became epidemical, trade was suspended for several years, which thinned very considerably the seraglios of Persia and Turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on England] Reference

However, genuine accounts of the interior of seraglios would be precious; and I was in hopes would become the greater rarities, as I flattered myself that your friends the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

Similarly in paintings, in literature, the drama, the men served but as foils for the delicious maidens, who visited my aërial seraglios and lapped me in roseate dreamings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference

They furnish with beauties the seraglios of the Turkish Sultan, of the Persian Sophy, and of all those who are wealthy enough to purchase and maintain such precious merchandise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on England] Reference

And hushed seraglios! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference

Of women shut in hushed seraglios.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference

Or yet, in dim seraglios, at the feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Coffee] Reference

And hush'd seraglios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

Grétry, Mozart, Wieland, scarcely took their seraglios, pashas, bulbuls earnestly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference