| Abraham ended up with a wife and a concubine, Jacob with two wives and two concubines. |
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| The courtesan or concubine was often the richest and most politically powerful of the whole court. |
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| At the age of eighteen, he took a concubine or mistress and together they had one child, a son. |
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| A concubine, a low cur, a cheat and a fraud would be decent things by comparison with being called a liar. |
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| Theseus defeated the Amazons in battle and took one of their captive leaders as his wife or concubine. |
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| There are rumors floating around the internet that you are his concubine. |
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| But Machiko Kyo, playing the concubine, turns out to enrapture him because of her gaiety. |
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| That, he recently joked, has made it difficult for outsiders to work out which entity is the first wife and which is a concubine. |
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| Her central position, size and attitude indicate that she was an important personage, perhaps a favourite concubine of the patron. |
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| The coveted concubine Violetta Valéry discovers true love with the young aristocrat Alfredo Germont. |
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| She had no full brothers, although four sons were born to a concubine of her father, and they would all have been married to women whose surnames are not recorded. |
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| She may prosecute only if the husband has kept a concubine in the marital home. |
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| She accepts the advances of the older, richer man and the difficulties she experiences on becoming his concubine are multiplied by the presence of his three other mistresses. |
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| It is uncertain whether she was legally married to Constantius or merely his concubine. |
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| There he experiences a forbidden love for a nobleman's concubine that threatens to unhinge the domestic bliss he leaves behind with his young bride in France. |
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| In 1353 prince Fa Ngum, after being exiled to have allured his fathers concubine, was invested by King of Sukhothai to re-conquer the provinces of Laos. |
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| The man then changed his mind and appealed to the Customary Court of Appeal against the decision, saying that it was shocking that the court actually gave his house to a concubine. |
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| When he arrived at Srednekolymsk in 1645 he had 12 men with him and, probably, his Yakut concubine. |
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| Despite much persuasion from the generals and Consort Yu, his beloved concubine, Xiang Yu presumingly led the army to Jiulishan Mountain. |
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| Most of them are still waiting. The accounting firms, which were among the more aggressive globalisers, thought they could be drummer, messenger and concubine all at once. |
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| In Sumi nuri, a concubine who is abandoned by her lover, a daimyo who leaves the capital to return to his home, expresses her sorrow by using drops of water as pretend tears. |
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| If the husband had a concubine, the wife was allowed to strike her without having to pay any compensation, even if it resulted in the concubine's death. |
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| At the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, the film shared the Palme d'Or Best Film Award with Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, and Holly Hunter received the Best Actress Award. |
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