Lexicographical Neighbors of Hareems
Literary usage of Hareems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"... a flower, and a dainty lace handkerchief — The Khedive orders a wedding to
amuse the Empress Eugenic — Divorce — Harems (pronounced hareems). ..."
2. Ragged Life in Egypt by Mary Louisa Whately (1863)
"VISITS TO EASTERN WOMEN WHO DO NOT LIVE IN hareems. A VISIT to an Eastern hareem
has often been described,—that curious scene, bringing to mind the tales of ..."
3. Conversations and Journals in Egypt and Malta by Nassau William Senior, Mary Charlotte Mair Senior Simpson (1882)
"In Paris it is the children of the poor who die—in Cairo it is the children of
the rich. They are confined and coddled in the hareems without air or ..."
4. Conversations and Journals in Egypt and Malta by Nassau William Senior, Mary Charlotte Mair Senior Simpson (1882)
"They are confined and coddled in the hareems without air or exercise, fed on
sweetmeats and pastry and butter and all manner of trash, ..."
5. A Summer Ramble in Syria: With a Tartar Trip from Aleppo to Stamboul by Vere Monro (1835)
"Beautiful Jewess—Presented in some Christian hareems by Padre Manoel.—Women of
Damascus.—Sleeping Beauty.—Introduced to a Christian House by Mr. C. Farren. ..."
6. The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo by Sophia Lane Poole (1844)
"MY DEAR FRIEND, You know how much I desired to obtain access to respectable
hareems, as well those of the highest as those of the middle classes ; and now ..."
7. The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo by Sophia Lane Poole (1844)
"I CANNOT better give you an idea of the order and discipline observed in the
hareems of the great and wealthy than by comparing each to a petty state, ..."
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