(1) 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 .

(2) Nor is it doubted by historians that Ibrahim the Mad had two hundred and eighty women of his seraglio sewn into sacks and cast into the Bosphorus.

(3) One is immediately reminded of Fabrice's brief but clear description of the second court at Topkapi: u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510People are admitted only into the 2'nd court of the seraglio , and are hindered from going further by a guard of black Eunuchs.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(4) The walls of the Alexandria seraglio apparently carry large portraits of himself to the total of his ladies.

(5) The luxurious air of the seraglio is made complete by a sensuous zither-like u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510santiru251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and gentle drumming in the background.

(6) Yet Fabrice's ebullient remark to a different correspondent that u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510a fine seraglio is being prepared at Adrianople, or in its neighborhood, for the Kingu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb could also suggest a brand-new construction.

(7) A seraglio of harem girls seemed to take unfathomable delight in passing my place of confinement.

(8) 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 .

(9) 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.

(10) This tyranny was exemplified through the image of the seraglio , where beautiful women were kept as u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510slaves to the tyrant's lust.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(11) Although foreigners frequently denoted many smaller summer palaces as seraglios , in the early eighteenth century the terminology was usually associated with Topkapi Palace.

(12) 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.