concubines

• Besides a vast number of concubines, the king of Ternate had an hundred women in his palace, who retained the name and quality of wives. —  The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI.
• The slaves in your palace—eunuchs, concubines, all the lesser and greater wives—would they gather around you and protect you, O Supreme Omniscience? —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
• Sixteen of his concubines are hanged, Their bodies buried around his coffin. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Here he chatted with his favorites among the wives and concubines, and caressed his children, taking them in his arms, embracing them, plying them with puzzling or funny questions, and making droll faces at the babies: the more agreeable the mother, the dearer the child. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
• Bleeding from a gash to the temple, eyes fixed wide, he had watched as the women and children of the zenana —lesser wives, concubines, his own half-brothers and—sisters—were ravished and slain, until the now-stagnant pool turned crimson with blood. —  Kushiel’s Avatar

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