The head imperial eunuch placed them in position, and, with a low obeisance, departed, the richer by several hundred ounces of silver.
One day the eunuch saw my wife's bicycle standing on the veranda and said: "What kind of a cart is that?
On further inquiry I discovered that there was no other way that the eunuch could have learned about the Gospel, except in the way indicated.
One day the head eunuch from the palace of one of the leading princes in Peking came to ask my wife, who was their physician, to go to see some of the women or children who were ill.
One day not long after the coup d'etat a eunuch came rushing into our compound, his face scratched and bleeding, and knocking his head on the ground before me, begged me to save his life.
Day after day for six weeks this eunuch visited me, and would never leave until I had found some new book for His Majesty.
One day while we were in the palace a pompous eunuch had stepped before the Emperor quite obliterating him.
One day a eunuch dashed into the back gate of our compound in Peking, rode up to the door of the library, dismounted from his horse, and handed a letter in a red envelope to the house servant who met him on the steps.
This was theeunuch Bagoas (Bagoses), who under Artaxerxes III.
The leader of the besieged party was a eunuchin the service of King Zedekiah.
During these disorders the eunuch remained in the fortress, continually employing the policy of promises and other courtesies with those who were the strongest and the nearest to himself.
The eunuch Bacchides, or Bacchus, according to others, whom Mithridates, after despairing of success, commissioned with the order for his women to die.
They form a circle, facing inward, and the swarthy eunuchin charge stands keeping watch at a respectful distance.
Theodosius sent the eunuch Eutropius into Egypt to invite the hermit John to come to him and declare to him the will of God.
Crimean War, when a eunuch struck a French officer in the face, and had his own head cut open in consequence by the other’s sword.
On reaching the courtyard the eunuch returned, leaving me to make my way out alone.
Here the eunuch guardians of the mosque sit; and the councils of the primates of the town, or their principal assemblies, are often held here.
The fate of a eunuch of this description is mentioned by Bruce.
A eunuch of the mosque would be highly affronted if he were so termed by any person.
In a large house here resides the Aga of the eunuchs belonging to the temple, together with all the eunuch boys, who are educated here, till they attain a sufficient age to allow of their living in private lodgings.
I did so; and behold, a black eunuchput his head out through the garden wicket and asked, 'O Shaykh, there any one with thee?
When it was the Two Hundred and Nineteenth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that she gave her missive to the eunuch in waiting and bade him bear it to Prince Amjad.
Then he called out to the eunuch who slept at the door, saying, "Woe to thee, O damned one, arise at once!
But when Kamar al-Zaman heard these words, he was enraged with sore rage and he said to the Wazir, "'Tis manifest to me in very deed that you people taught the eunuch to do as he did.
Amongst his freedmen, the greatest favourite was the eunuch Posides, whom, in his British triumph, he presented with the pointless spear, classing him among the military men.
Some authors say that it was given him as he was feasting with the priests in the Capitol, by the eunuch Halotus, his taster.
Well, for Philip it was enough that Jesus Christ sent him to the eunuch and did not send him to Cornelius.
The eunuch had said that he could not understand unless some man guided him.
Probably the very absence of the signs of deference to which he was accustomed impressed the eunuch with a dim sense of the stranger's authority, which would be deepened by the home-thrust of his question.
And theeunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this?
The eunuch was reading aloud, as people not very much used to books, or who have some difficult passage in hand, often do.
Samaria was a borderland between Jew and Gentile, but in preaching to the eunuch Philip was on entirely Gentile ground.
And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
Not because he was a man of great authority at Candace's court, but because he was yearning for light, and ready to follow it when it shone, did the eunuch meet Philip on that quiet road.
The eunuch was a worshiper of God; but Philip is sent to teach him how to see God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Lydia, the seller of purple, belonged to the same interesting generation as the eunuch of Ethiopia, and the centurion of Caesarea.
He sent a Philip to the eunuch in the desert of Gaza.
The eunuch had gone from Ethiopia to Jerusalem in search of something on which to rest his anxious soul.
The traitor Tennes was put to death, but Mentor rose high in the favour of the king, and entered into a close alliance with the eunuch Bagoas, the king's favourite and vizier.
Long after this, Teridates, the Eunuch died, who was the most beautiful youth in Asia.
As soon as he returned, he put the vest of the Eunuch upon Aspasia, which did in a manner fit her; and by this means her beauty appeared with greater splendour to the King's eye, who much affected the youth.
That eunuchguardian of rich Holland's trade, Who envies us what he wants power to enjoy; Whose noiseful valour does no foe invade, And weak assistance will his friends destroy.
Yesterday I rode not forth neither ruled, but drank and slept, and this eunuch cometh to make me rise.
Whereupon the sleeper awoke and sat up; and the Eunuch asked him, "Who be thy father in this village and where be thy dwelling?
Presently the Eunuch went out before him and the little white slaves behind him, and they ceased not going till they raised the curtain and brought him into the hall of judgment and the throne-room of the Caliphate.
When theEunuch heard this, the mishap was grievous to him and his breast was straitened and he knew not what to do.
Accordingly she acquainted the king her husband with that and sought his permit for the Eunuch to fare: and the king granted him leave of absence for the journey and charged him devise a device, lest he come to grief.
Hereupon the Eunuch brought him a pair of sandals wrought with raw silk and green silk and purfled with red gold, and he took them and after examining them set them in his sleeve; whereat the Castrato cried out and said, "Allah!
Then he acquainted the king with this and he bade one of his servants descend into the hollow: so the man climbed down and brought out the youth and the Eunuch in fainting condition.
So she took him apart one day and said to him, shedding tears the while, "Thou hast been my Eunuch from my childhood to this day; canst thou not therefore get me tidings of my son, seeing that I cannot speak of his matter?
Riding rapidly along the ranks, the Eunuch dangled before the eyes of his barbarian auxiliaries golden armlets, golden collars, golden bridles.
He was recognised by a eunuch from a mole on his left foot, but the eunuch was afraid to reveal his identity.
With a lady of the seraglio to hold his ink-slab, he dashed off some of his most impassioned lines; at which the Emperor was so overcome that he made the powerful eunuch Kao Li-shih go down on his knees and pull off the poet's boots.
His father had been adopted as son by the chief eunuch of the palace, and he himself was a wild young man much given to coursing and hawking.
The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.
But she sought not women's ornaments, but whatsoever Egeus the eunuch the keeper of the virgins had a mind, he gave her to adorn her.
And he commanded theeunuch to hasten the women's ornaments, and to deliver to her her part, and seven of the most beautiful maidens of the king's house, and to adorn and deck out both her and her waiting maids.
The eunuch Wang Chen came to his end, and his clique, of course, no longer counted.
He began by murdering every eunuch who did not belong to his clique, and then murdered the rest of his opponents.
When a revolt broke out in western China, this eunuch (whose political allegiance was, of course, unknown to Liu Chin) secured appointment as army commander.
The emperor had grown up in the palace and knew nothing of the world outside; he was therefore glad to go with Wang Chen; but that eunuch had also lived in the palace and also knew nothing of the world, and in particular of war.
Soon, however, another clique, led by the eunuch Wang Chen, gained the upper hand at court.
He has a eunuch for guard at the gate of the kitchen, who never allows any one to enter for fear of poison.
In the middle of this palace, upon an high estrade, is seated an eunuch called the Danaik,[139] who alone presides over the divan.
The king lives by himself inside the palace, and when he wishes to have with him one of his wives he orders a eunuch to go and call her.
Sometimes a sultana was married to a eunuch for his fortune, in which case he generally died soon after his marriage; sometimes no other suitable husband being found for her, she was given to a eunuch of high rank.
In stories we occasionally read of a father who marries his daughter to a eunuch as a punishment.
It was the first time the two had been able to go out together since the night last recorded, for on that occasion Suleima had been caught by the eunuch coming in from the garden.
Then in answer to him--Oh, no, she was quite content where she was, except when Abdul was in a bad temper or the eunuch beat her.
She looked at Suleima more closely, and waiting till Achmet and the eunuch had left the room: "Poor lamb!
All at once the same eunuch who had given me the directions to find out the lady's house, came to the mosque.
On hearing this speech, my excellent mother became kind from maternal fondness, and concealed my guilt in her own breast, and sent all the necessaries for the entertainment by the same eunuch who is in my secrets.
The eunuch returned alone with a similar face, and mentioned to me the young man's condition.
The eunuch said, "I will do it with pleasure, there is no difficulty in it.
I had no sooner expressed my wish, than such a mine was dug in a few days, so that on the approach of evening the eunuch used to conduct the young man through that same passage, in silence and secrecy [to my apartment].
The day had in the meantime passed away, and when the evening came, a eunuch called upon me, and conducted me to the seraglio.
A long period passed in this manner; but it happened one day that when the eunuch went to call him, according to custom, then he perceived that the youth was sitting sorrowful and silent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eunuch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
