How To Use Eunuch In A Sentence

  • But judicious," Natalenko squeaked, in the high eunuchoid voice that came so incongruously from his bulk. Lone Star Planet
  • She dipped her goose-feather quill into a jade inkpot, drained the red ink along the side, and unhurriedly marked a circle around the black tent the eunuch had pointed out to her. Shadow Princess
  • As they were talking, there came an eunuch from the Commander of the Faithful, in quest of Kut al-Kulub, for, when he knew that she was in the house of Ibn al-Kirnas, he could not endure the severance, but bade bring her forthwith. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He was also a eunuch of such beauty that the sultan fell for his epicene handsomeness and appointed him his senior commander.
  • The Emperor of China would employ eunuchs, castrated men, as guards and servants in his Palace.
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  • Since an imperial harem numbered more than 5,000 wives, concubines, and eunuch guards at the height of the dynasty, the scale of cooking was gargantuan.
  • July 5th, 2006 at 7: 13 pm ann coulter says: malkin is not a bad ‘bottom’ most days … she likes me to wear a japanese headband and yell ‘BONZAI’ … that gets her all hot and stinky … mooney is welcome … i never say ‘no’ to another eunuch … i say ‘bring it on!’ kisses, ann Think Progress » Coulter plagiarism charges are being investigated
  • Then said she, “An thou wilt have it so, O our lord, it will be privier and better in my place than in thine, for here are slave-girls and eunuchs and goers-in and comers-out, and indeed I am a woman who wotteth naught of this fashion; but need compelleth.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The Ministry of Personnel turned it down, but the emperor himself approved it. 113 Ningzhou (department) was initially under direct administration, however, a native chieftain bribed Liu Jin, the influential eunuch, and a native subprefect was resumed that eventually would be abolished in 1522.114 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • But, Varys' "plumpness" is not crucial to the plot I know, he's a eunuch and he is a bit of a "master of disguise" anyway... Insider: Sean Bean cast as Ned
  • On a cool spring day in 535 I went with Metaxas to the Great Palace, where he sought and found a plump, eunuchoid individual named Anastasius and had a long, animated discussion with him. Up The Line
  • 1 With a decrease in androgen production, secondary sexual characteristics might not completely develop, and features of eunuchoidism and gynecomastia JAMA current issue
  • Her eunuch came forward from the shadows to listen to his mistress, and if he was surprised, his expression betrayed nothing. Shadow Princess
  • When his wife saw this, she said, "I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;" and he answered her, saying, "All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment. Arabian nights. English
  • Not giant refrigerators, transistorised and riveted hulks; bloated with imperialism, pillage, arrogance and eunuchoid science. Jodorowsky On His Unmade "Dune"
  • It's like being called a eunuch or an old maid; one always hears that faint sneer of disdain and condescension mixed with pity.
  • Then at 18 she met a group of eunuchs - castrated men who dressed as women and sang and danced for a living.
  • Public choice, as an inclusive research programme, incorporates the presumption that persons do not readily become economic eunuchs as they shift from market to political participation.
  • The Ministry of Personnel turned it down, but the emperor himself approved it. 113 Ningzhou (department) was initially under direct administration, however, a native chieftain bribed Liu Jin, the influential eunuch, and a native subprefect was resumed that eventually would be abolished in 1522.114 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
  • The happiness-of-the-greatest-number, of those who pasture on delusions: what dreamer is responsible for this eunuchry? Alone
  • And thy chiefest accomplishment is taking snuff with a bel air, patching, painting, powdering like a woman, and squeaking like an eunuch, gadzooks. The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother
  • There can be no doubt from the relation sent, as to the attitude of the king of China; for the three greatest magistrates whom he has in the province and dominion of Oquen (to which belongs the province of Chiencho) -- that is, the viceroy, the inspector-general and the eunuch -- write this, each one of them, in two letters, one of which is for the said archbishop and the other for the said governor of these islands. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • A eunuch hurried into the room with a long-sleeved silk tunic and a rose-colored mantle, carrying them with great care, as if they were fragile.
  • The private apartments of the palace were governed by a favorite eunuch, who, in the language of that age, was styled the propositus, or præfect of the sacred bed-chamber. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
  • Therefore I'm currently enjoying the status of a political eunuch.
  • The poet W. H. Auden derided “Lip-smacking Imps of mawk and hooey,” and the feminist author Germaine Greer in her 1970 Female Eunuch rescued equestrian interests of women from psychological leers with “The horse between a girl’s legs is supposed to be a gigantic penis. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • By the ministry of a faithful eunuch she transmitted to him a ring, the pledge of her affection, and earnestly conjured him to claim her as a lawful spouse to whom he had been secretly betrothed.
  • The slave-girls suffer first from these masterful young persons and then it is the turn of the eunuchry. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And he ensured that he surrounded himself with political eunuchs.
  • The sea-going eunuchs fell from favour (Zheng's missions were staggeringly costly) and by 1500 it was a capital offence to go to sea in a two-masted ship without permission.
  • Terence" -- that very small fragment of the Eunuchus which Plunkett forced into his head through the opposite pole of his person -- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
  • Then said she, "An thou wilt have it so, O our lord, it will be privier and better in my place than in thine, for here are slave-girls and eunuchs and goers-in and comers-out, and indeed I am a woman who wotteth naught of this fashion; but need compelleth. Arabian nights. English
  • (the monk of melodrama always has a bass voice), while excessive or precocious sexual indulgence tends to be associated with the same kind of puerile voice as is found in those persons in whom pubertal development has not been carried very far, or who are of what Griffiths terms eunuchoid type. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
  • -- S.J. eunuchs: the castrati were the great singers of Italian opera at this time. Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  • But as the jealous and dissolute temperament of the East required this charge to be in the hands of persons who had been deprived of their virility, the word eunuch came naturally to denote persons in that condition. Smith's Bible Dictionary
  • At 18 she met a group of eunuchs, who dressed as women and sang and danced for a living.
  • The word hijra is an Urdu word meaning eunuch or hermaphrodite. The Hijra Subculture: India's Transvestites
  • The eunuch replied, “By Allah, thou deservest altogether a better fate;” and the King asked, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Quoth Abd al-Kadir, “This riviere beseemeth none but my daughter Hayat al-Nufus;” and, turning to an eunuch, whose jaw-teeth the Princess had knocked out for reasons best known to herself,296 he called to him and said, “Carry the necklace to thy lady and say to her, ‘One of the Kings hath sent thy father this, as a present, and its price may not be paid with money; put it on thy neck.’” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Such was the account once given to me by a eunuch’s wife; and I need hardly say that she, like her confrerie, was to be pitied. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • A eunuch came forward from the shadows of the large aspens along the pathways and motioned to Najabat Khan to climb to the second level of the bagh. Shadow Princess
  • The modern meaning of the word eunuch is a castrated male. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • The only men allowed to serve women in their private quarters were either eunuchs or men who lacked a sexual drive towards women.
  • The book arrives as a museum dedicated to eunuchs, built around the tomb of a 16th century eunuch, is undergoing a major expansion. Boing Boing
  • Meanwhile, when the eunuchs went in to the Princess at break of day, she bade open the private wicket leading from the palace to the parterres and donned a royal robe, embroidered with pearls and jewels and gems, over a shift of fine silk purfled with rubies. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And I the while said in my mind: 'Doubtless the eunuchry seized me because their mistress smelt the stink of the offal and it sickened her. Tehran Winter
  • The Famen Temple, Chia Kuei is a trusted lackey of Liu Chin , a Ming Dynasty eunuch.
  • Many get their income from performing at ceremonies, begging, or prostitution — an occupation of eunuchs also recorded in premodern times. The Hijras « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
  • It's like a man who celebrates the day of his castration, as a eunuch.
  • The term eunuch, or hijra, is used in India to describe transvestites, transsexuals and others who identify themselves as neither male nor female but as a member of a third gender. Indian Eunuchs Mourn Fire Victims
  • Accordingly he shouted to his eunuchs and women an order to serve food, and they set before them a tray containing birds of every king that walk and fly and in nests increase and multiply, such as sand-grouse and quails and pigeon-poults and lambs and fatted geese and fried poultry and other dishes of all sorts and colours. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • At the moment when he approached the apartment of his father, in the dreadful design of completing his crimes by embruing his hands in his parent's blood, he was perceived by a slave, who, assisted by the eunuchs of the guard, deprived the murderer of every hope of success in the crime he was about to commit. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
  • In this case it will be interesting to see if the unions can act as anything more than the castrated eunuchs that they are.
  • The Jews have a secret process of eunuchry; they have a way of inserting an instrument (a drawing of which he made, showing distinctly phallic features) by psychological means into the glands or bodies of men, thus cleaning them out. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Many get their income from performing at ceremonies, begging or prostitution — an occupation of eunuchs also recorded in premodern times. 2006 October 14 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
  • All bars should be forced to employ eunuchs as waitresses.
  • They believe that one becomes a eunuch through past demons.
  • Castrati made themselves eunuchs both for art's sake and for jobs in baroque Rome.
  • As a eunuch he was excluded from the inner parts of the temple.
  • In a tiny apse in one corner, like an afterthought to the chamber's spacious design, the eunuch turned a key and opened a door.
  • Wind as the origin of life could be duplicated by mechanical methods or eunuchry. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Yatibar Ali Khân," (Munny Begum's chief eunuch,) "from the amount of salaries of the officers of the adawlut and foujdarry, which before my arrival he had received for two months from the sircar, made disbursements according to his own pleasure. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
  • Juvenal derided the idea of married eunuchs and yet almost all of these neutrals have wives with whom they practise the manifold plaisirs de la petite oie (masturbation, tribadism, irrumation, tete-beche, feuille-de-rose, etc.), till they induce the venereal orgasm. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Hirschfeld emphasizes the fact that neither hermaphroditism nor eunuchoidism is commonly associated with homosexuality, and that a large proportion of the cases of transvestism, as defined by him, are heterosexual. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
  • Ostracized by society and living in ghettos, eunuchs, popularly known as ‘hijras’ have nowhere to go but their own peers for shelter and succour.
  • Then that race whose son carried the Savior's Cross, while the Semitic and Japhetic races united to crucify Him, will wear the Dispensational Crown; being also the race, which in the person of the Ethiopian eunuch, furnished the first convert of pure Gentile blood (through a Jewish proselyte) and who hastened to stretch out his hand to God, when Philip drew near to him; and even to ask himself for Christian Baptism. Men of Maryland
  • Transgender men, known as metis or eunuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometimes raped at Maoist checkpoints, and again at government checkpoints, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group. Durangoherald.com
  • While the eunuchs danced, men held money over the heads of people they wanted to honour.
  • It is told that Harun al-Rashid was sitting one day on the throne of the Caliphate, when there came in to him a youth of his eunuchry, bearing a crown of red gold, set with pearls and rubies and all manner of other gems and jewels, such as money might not buy; and, bussing the ground between his hands, said, O The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He alone would have been carried across the immense first courtyard in a palanquin on the shoulders of eunuchs.
  • When he had made an end of eating, he called the eunuch, who washed his hands. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
  • He even occasionally allows his reader a salacious glimpse of his many and various belle-lettrist exchanges with flatterers, botherers, court eunuchs, visiting dignitaries and so on.
  • People expect a political scientist to be objective, some kind of political eunuch.
  • This expression would render us both socially unique and a political eunuch.
  • You must be content, therefore, with such a general description as I have received from some of the eunuchs.
  • A descendent of a famous eunuch of the Ching Dynasty is suing a Taipei hospital for medical malpractice.
  • Both of my sisters changed their names on marriage, their husbands having much more euphonic surnames, even although the younger one emerged from the womb reading The Female Eunuch.
  • The arts, of which the little lion dogs were considered a part, were entrusted to the palace courts' eunuchs and women, who competed to outdo each other in creating the most beautiful dog in order to gain the special favor of the emperors.
  • She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the old nurse saw the head of the eunuchry and his assistants making for her she was in exceeding fear and cried, There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • When his wife saw this, she said, “I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;” and he answered her, saying, “All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The exclusion of the eunuch is ideologically accomplished by designating him as ritually impure.
  • The eunuch is baptized in the name of Christ, v. 36-38. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • “that he should leave to men the exercise of arms, and return to his proper station among the maidens of the palace, where a distaff should be again placed in the hand of the eunuch.” The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • A eunuch hurried into the room with a long-sleeved silk tunic and a rose-colored mantle, carrying them with great care, as if they were fragile.
  • We have received certain representations from the British homosexual community, but after due consideration we have taken the view that British fags are a raunchy little group of pagans, bastards, eunuchs, and insurgents and God hates them all and the whole of the UK too," a spokesman for the WBC said yesterday. Archive 2007-06-01
  • Here we find the religious significance of eunuchry. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The eunuchs were threatened with death, if she were not found; and the horror of all was aroused by the suggestion that she might possibly have eloped with some giaour [10], and several of the slaves were sent to atone for their neglect with the forfeit of their lives. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
  • It was the South, on the Yangtze where Chinese culture was held to thrive - where the mandarins and the literati ruled, not the court Eunuchs.
  • The term eunuch is used in India to describe transvestites, transsexuals and others who identify themselves as neither male nor female but as a members of a third gender. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • Manu has declared that those Brahmanas who are thieves, outcasts, eunuchs, or atheists are unworthy to partake of oblations offered to gods and ancestors.
  • Failing to have prosecuted Labour over these scandals would probably have relegated ACT to United Future or Progressive levels of influence - political eunuchs.
  • His manner was courteously masculine with no trace of the eunuchoid or effeminate; but in our hundreds of private hours together, Mac never hinted at a sexual propensity of his own, in any direction. CLEAR PICTURES
  • The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals.
  • Eras of gender-distinctive clothing could help women disguise themselves, but passing as a eunuch was even easier - no need to lower your natural voice tone or even pretend to shave.
  • Then said she, “An thou wilt have it so, O our lord, it will be privier and better in my place than in thine, for here are slave-girls and eunuchs and goers-in and comers-out, and indeed I am a woman who wotteth naught of this fashion; but need compelleth.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The injuries the males sustain make them more aggressive, with eunuch spiders more aggressive than those with one working palp, and those with two palps the least aggressive. Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females
  • Her countrywoman, who published The Female Eunuch in 1970, had already whetted the appetite for work by women.
  • Pope Sixtus V unequivocally prohibited marriage to castrates in 1587 when he responded to the Spanish papal nuncio's question about several women in Madrid who had married eunuchs.
  • The Chief Eunuch brought her before the T'ang Emperor, Ming Huang, at a time when the old man was inconsolable from the double deaths of his beloved Empress and his favourite mistress. Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
  • One is immediately reminded of Fabrice's brief but clear description of the second court at Topkapi: ‘People are admitted only into the 2'nd court of the seraglio, and are hindered from going further by a guard of black Eunuchs.’
  • So he called the eunuch and bade him go forthright to his Vizier and bid him assemble the whole of the troops and cause them don their arms and mount their horses. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
  • Moreover, on such occasions he used to doff his royal-habit, together with his rosary and dagger-sword and royal-signet, and set them all upon a chair in the sitting - saloon: and he had also a golden lanthorn, adorned with three jewels strung on a wire of gold, by which he set great store; and he would commit all these things to the charge of the eunuchry, whilst he went into the Lady Zubaydah's apartment. Arabian nights. English
  • It harboured, among others, a _douchoboretz_; a "god" of the Sava persuasion, with his wife, representing the "Holy Ghost"; a _chlyst_, who rotated indefatigably round a tub of water; a captain who claimed the honour of brotherhood with Jesus Christ; a man named Pouchkin, who supposed himself to be the Saviour reincarnated; a _skopetz_ who had brought a number of people from Moscow to be initiated into the sect of the Russian eunuchs; and the _staretz_ Israïl, a famous seer, who desired to found a "Church Triumphant" among the inhabitants of the prison. Modern Saints and Seers
  • This ceremony is supposed to mark an important event in the life of the eunuchs, when they realise their dream of marrying for once.
  • The House of Commons, inundated by a quota system guaranteed to promote mediocrity, had become a government harem populated by political eunuchs.
  • eunuchs guarded the harem
  • She also bore another wildman, a science-wallah, a eunuch, a freemartin, and the Princess of the Farther Spaces. April 5th, 2009
  • Unlike the Republican eunuchoid whiggers overheard whining about how "Obama is going to take away our guns," it is not as if we will ever let such a thing come to pass. Yes To Democracy
  • She clapped her little white hands for her attending eunuch, and let the flabby monster wrap her in her mantle.
  • A small number of eunuchs are hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female characteristics, or transvestites.
  • I always felt a bit like a court eunuch when I was around him.
  • The Emperor would employ eunuchs as guards and servants in his Palace.
  • I read about Kleinfelter’s Syndrome, where an extra X chromosome renders a person tall, eunuchoid, and temperamentally unpleasant. Middlesex
  • Another group who owed their existence in the Capital Region solely to the presence of the imperial court in Beijing were eunuchs.
  • Only in the domestic sphere did they remain predominant, and the top of that pyramid was now occupied by the court eunuchs.
  • In the chain of the covenantal family, the foreigner has no past and the eunuch no future.
  • So he went on eating, whilst the folk looked at him in astonishment, waiting to see what would betide him; and, when he had satisfied himself, Zumurrud said to certain of her eunuchry, "Go to yonder youth who eateth of the rice and bring him to me in courteous guise, saying: 'Answer the summons of the King who would have a word with thee on some slight matter.' Arabian nights. English
  • And that princess let her slave girls run ahead of her, waited until they had disappeared, and then sent a message to the mardana through a eunuch she found passing by. Shadow Princess
  • If I have to read one more whining twenty-something eunuch complain about how politics just isn't relevant to his/her life, I'm gonna be sick.
  • As the traditional sense of the word seems to imply, not every person referred to as a eunuch was necessarily castrated.
  • She also bore another wildman, a science-wallah, a eunuch, a freemartin, and the Princess of the Farther Spaces. April 5th, 2009
  • Other main characters are Bagoas the famously beautiful eunuch companion of Darius and then Alexander, Artashir a Persian noble and officer in Alexander's army, Thais the infamous Athenian hetaira of the Susa Palace torching fame and long time companion of Ptolemy and of course Alexander and Hephaistion as above. "Stealing Fire" by Jo Graham (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
  • In the first reading Philip runs alongside the chariot of the Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the queen.

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