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  • In this six-page story, she encounters a handsome shiek—“The harem-scarem type!”

    Review: Best of Golden Age Sheena Vol. 2 2009

  • A fitting end for a harem-scarem, rock-'em-sock-'em shakeup of a year -- one of tumbling inevitabilities, torn coalitions, striking new personalities.

    Obama and the Runaway Train 2008

  • Doctor determined to have a 'lark' with the night guardian, somewhat after the fashion of the wild, harem-scarem students at the University at which he had graduated -- in which pranks he had often participated.

    City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

  • Jeff's bin a harem-scarem feller all his life -- active and able enough, an 'good natur'd too, but he never could stick to nothin', an 'so he's bin wanderin' about the world till grey hairs have begun to show on him, without gettin 'a home or a wife.

    Silver Lake 1859

  • They cannot possibly maintain this level of harem-scarem and progress against the continent's best.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • They cannot possibly maintain this level of harem-scarem and progress against the continent's best.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • "I'm half with Gary Naylor re: the quality quota, but would venture that Del Potro's game isn't much given to top-notch harem-scarem," says James Marsh.

    The Guardian World News 2008

  • I remember I got into -- the last straw at "Vanity Fair" was when I got into a bar fight in the most fashionable watering hole in the city, and yet there are two kinds of journalists -- there's the kind of Clean and sober careerist with a summer house in the Hamptons and then there's the kind of harem-scarem (ph) rastabout (ph), whose status is somewhere between a whore and a bartender.

    CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2002 2002

  • She was always such a wild, harem-scarem girl at home. "

    The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

  • "It's always hard-fought with Caley Thistle, never easy and it was pretty harem-scarem at times, but it's a great three points for us.

    unknown title 2009

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