seraglio
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But with the Prince Andrew imbroglio in the seraglio of Jeffrey Epstein, and with Harry’s run for the Hollywood Hills, it is clear that many in her family are not interested in moral authority.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2020
Mischievous mice, an exotic peacock, the Pasha's seraglio and even a curious monster from Where the Wild Things Are create a blissful return to childhood.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2012
Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"The families will fight like fury, like eunuchs in a seraglio, to retain their status," predicted Scares.
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Oft doth reason, enthroned in the pillowed seraglio of the brain, hang back; whereas the flesh, which must walk abroad in the streets, finds its own temerity.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Fair marks are they to the inner bay, the reckless poacher knows What time the scarred see-catchie lead their sleek seraglios.
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
Grétry, Mozart, Wieland, scarcely took their seraglios, pashas, bulbuls earnestly.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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 In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
Women, in Constantinople, are confined in seraglios for life, or shut up in their apartments.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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