What is "concubines"

Usage examples of "concubines".

Today, not only are the eunuchs the attendants and guardians of the wives and concubines, they are also councilors to the Great King, ministers of state and even, sometimes, generals and satraps.

Persian court, favorite wives or concubines of the Great King are often influential.

My entire retinue numbered three hundred men, five concubines and no eunuchs.

Eventually he divorced or sent away his Dorian wives and concubines on the ground that he could not bear their melancholy.

As a result, he had spent most of his reign in seclusion at his palace, surrounded by concubines and drinking cronies.

I had the gold that he has and the silver in my hand that he wears every day in his girdle and if I had the pearls his concubines wear and the rubies his wife wears.

I saw robbers in a bad year once rush into the gate of the great house and the slaves and the concubines and even the Old Mistress herself ran hither and thither and each had a treasure that she thrust into some secret place already planned.

It was just what Wang Lung hoped to hear and the man went on to tell him of it with relish, describing how the few slaves left had screamed and how they had been carried off and how the concubines that remained had been raped and driven out and some even taken away, so that now none cared to live in that house at all.

If he wants her for himself, he shall tell her the numbers of his wives and concubines and what her place would be in his tent.

He had seventy-three concubines and four hundred and twenty-six children.

Now there was no-one pure enough to continue the line without polluting it, so Shay-Tarrazin made do with his plump young concubines and his ivory stallions, and watched his power slowly settle until he relied entirely on the news of couriers for his dealings with the outside world, and hardly ever left the grounds of his palace.

But once Shay-Tarrazin had installed time in his palace, he and his courtiers, their retinue, the concubines, consorts, servants, cooks and porters were all capable of being late.

While it was perfectly usual for royalty to arrive with a small army of personal staff, the Crown Prince had appeared with two dozen of his favourite concubines, giving rise to all manner of problems in protocol.

Archduke could have allowed his concubines to remain in the suite with him while he broke fast, but, choosing not to draw attention to their status, sent them instead to observe normal mealtimes in the correct fashion.

Old enough to be raped and taken as concubines if they were left with the Quman.