Because if there is not, then I had rather go back to the hareem than live as I do now imprisoned in glass-with all of life in sight of me and none in reach.
"The Passionate Friends"
Herbert George Wells
The Sadek family apologised for apparent want of hospitality,-explaining that the only unbroken part of the castle was but just sufficient to contain the hareem of the women, and there was not a single room to give me.
"Byeways in Palestine"
James Finn
It deals with a youthful bride who has just been attached to a Persian hareem.
"Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914"
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