How To Use Seraglio In A Sentence
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The impression is that the lay-out of the whole area resembled that of the Seraglio in Constantinople, with palaces, barracks, and other royal buildings set in an area of parkland.
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Well, yes, I think so," said Jack; "dancing Circassian girls and the seraglio was the topic of the conversation, unless I am wandering in my mind.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series
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Yet Fabrice's ebullient remark to a different correspondent that ‘a fine seraglio is being prepared at Adrianople, or in its neighborhood, for the King’ could also suggest a brand-new construction.
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The room, a moody cross between an opium den and a Byzantine seraglio, was upholstered at every turn in deep-red plush; there were acres of the stuff in the cushy front lounge.
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At the end of the day they were exhausted as they had never been; but they had an ease and satiety, like late leavers from a seraglio.
COUP D'ETAT
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This Framer, a believer in “energy in the executive,” derided worries about a too-powerful president and included this line: “We have been taught to tremble at the terrific visages of murdering janizaries and to blush at the unveiled mysteries of a future seraglio.”
No Uncertain Terms
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Just as he integrated other aspects of China to build his empire, so the First Emperor consolidated the harems of the conquered rulers to form a seraglio worthy of the lord of the subcelestial realm.
Empresses and Consorts
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Widely considered one of the composer's most beautiful operas, The Abduction from the Seraglio tells the story of a noblewoman, Konstanze, who is kidnapped and taken to the Orient.
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One is immediately reminded of Fabrice's brief but clear description of the second court at Topkapi: ‘People are admitted only into the 2'nd court of the seraglio, and are hindered from going further by a guard of black Eunuchs.’
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The luxurious air of the seraglio is made complete by a sensuous zither-like ‘santir’ and gentle drumming in the background.
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The fops and dandies had no interest in war and concentrated instead on their seraglios.
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He points out the shimmering red and gold curtains lining the kitchen door, a manifestation of the seraglio theme currently in vogue.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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NOTE: When George I imported his seraglio of impoverished gentlewomen from Germany, he provided the Jacobite songwriters with material for some of their most ribald verses.
Great Scots
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Basses can be subdivided into the basso cantante ("singing bass"; Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra), the comic basso buffo (Don Pasquale), or the basso profondo ("deep bass"; Osmin in The Seraglio).
Who's who: the different voices in opera
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This tyranny was exemplified through the image of the seraglio, where beautiful women were kept as ‘slaves to the tyrant's lust.’
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One is tempted, with undue causticity perhaps, to ask - like Emperor Joseph II at the premiere of Mozart's ‘Abduction from the Seraglio ‘- whether her prose does not, in fact, have ‘too many notes.’
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Manon Baletti, who was too happy to have had an opportunity of spewing her affection for me; and her joy was full when I told her that I was going to give up business, for she thought that my seraglio was the only obstacle to my marriage with her.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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What Natasha means, is that she has met some self confident women who don't conform to her own racist stereotypes of Muslim women, huddled away in some oriental seraglio.
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The seraglio is a vast inclosure, occupying nearly the entire site of the ancient city of Byzantium, and embracing a circumference of five miles.
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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Christian writers and readers are too apt to confound the seraglio with the harem, and to suppose that the former means the apartments belonging to the sultan's ladies; whereas the word seraglio, or rather _sernil_, represents the entire palace of which the harem, or females 'dwelling, is but a comparatively small portion.
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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In The Abduction from the Seraglio, in The Magic Flute, the prisoners will be guarded by jailers whose vigilance must be outwitted.
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Afterwards I went to sup with Manon Baletti, who was too happy to have had an opportunity of spewing her affection for me; and her joy was full when I told her that I was going to give up business, for she thought that my seraglio was the only obstacle to my marriage with her.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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Ascension to stay with the shippe vntill a fitte winde and opportunity serued to bring her about the Seraglio to Salute the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The walls of the Alexandria seraglio apparently carry large portraits of himself to the total of his ladies.
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In fact, the harem was the section of the palace that housed the sultan’s family and was known as the seraglio.
The Thieves of Darkness
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The two women were simply aiding and abetting each other to disband the Seraglio.
HUMAN VOICES
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Although foreigners frequently denoted many smaller summer palaces as seraglios, in the early eighteenth century the terminology was usually associated with Topkapi Palace.
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At the end of the day they were exhausted as they had never been; but they had an ease and satiety, like late leavers from a seraglio.
COUP D'ETAT
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At the end of the day they were exhausted as they had never been; but they had an ease and satiety, like late leavers from a seraglio.
COUP D'ETAT
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The fops and dandies had no interest in war and concentrated instead on their seraglios.
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He points out the shimmering red and gold curtains lining the kitchen door, a manifestation of the seraglio theme currently in vogue.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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The luscious passion of the seraglio is the only one almost that is gratified here to the full; but it is blended so with the surly spirit of despotism in one of the parties, and with the dejection and anxiety which this spirit produces in the other, that, to one of my way of thinking, it cannot appear otherwise than as a very mixed kind of enjoyment.
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
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The English traveler Charles Perry, in an attempt to describe his visit to Sa'dabad, ended up giving only a detailed account of one building, pondering whether to call it a kiosk or a seraglio.