Sentence examples for concubine a from inspiring English sources

There Lady Nef offers Bibi the following choice: she can become Yu's concubine, a life Lady Nef describes as "competitive".

He sang confidently, but it was his Obama-inspired look, not his rendition of "The New Drunk Concubine," a pop song adapted from Peking Opera, that stood out.

This year's schedule includes films from at least 45 countries, including a retrospective of Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine"), a jury member.

He has kept a concubine, a practice banned in Hong Kong since the late 1960's, and he used to patronize opium dens.

The expressive facial expressions and stylized movements of the singer Yan Wang, clad in an ornate costume, helped convey the story of a woman stood up by her lover in selections from "The Drunken Concubine," a traditional Beijing opera.

Back in her hometown of Harbin, she has a husband and a child, but across the border she has acquired a kind of modern-day concubine — a Russian husband, along with another child.

There's also a popular saying that translates as, "a woman who gives a man a child is no longer a concubine but a wife".

Dabiq also described him as an "honourable brother" known for his "mercy and generosity" who once gave away a concubine as a gift "to an unmarried injured brother".

To lure Sharon Stone to be his concubine, an Indonesian billionaire has bought the Komodo dragon that attacked her ex-husband.

However, "Killing Me Softly" by the Chinese director Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine"), an erotic thriller starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes that explores the precarious relationship between sex and love and what becomes of both in the absence of trust, may push the envelope.

A Miss was once a concubine or a common prostitute.