Word: harems
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...HAREM-N. M. Penzer-Lippincott...
...friends were served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell and other admirers. He said that linen showed dirt better than silk and "he had often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen. The first published version of the Journal lets it go at that, with Boswell's comment that it was odd to hear Dr. Johnson discoursing in this fashion. But the manuscript shows that the situation was more painful. In the course...
...wonder that when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon and saw with her own eyes his great splendor and wealth and harem, she could not but break in spirit and confess that indeed, "That half was not told...
With all his clever and sometimes shady deals and in spite of the fact that his harem did finally bring his ruin. Solomon lives in the literature of the Bible as one of the most human, the wisest, and a God-fearing man. This son of David, son of Bath-sheba, even as his wise words, has become "a proverb and a byword among the people...
...their slave girls chanced to please him, tradition required that he should seem to notice nothing-indeed it would have been highly improper to show any sign of a new attachment in the presence of a reigning favorite. Every mood had to be controlled in the harem. The chief slave girl was the go-between and she informed the lucky girl of the honor that awaited her. ... A new career was opened to her. ... In other ways, too, it was a momentous time. Only virgins were sold as slaves, and although life in the harem-with its peculiar atmosphere, preoccupations...