There was another thud, but this time caused by the hulk of timber falling on the ground, as guard, eunuchs and Gungadhura all took to their heels.
But I've no weapon of any kind, and you can't kill Gungadhura, three eunuchs and the guard as well!
Those eunuchs are the leash that always hunt with him by night.
Silken coverlets were spread over their weary, beautiful limbs, and a troop of eunuchs took good care that the dreamy repose of the entire body should not be disturbed by quarrelsome or petulant individuals.
Then he sat and the singers also seated themselves, whilst the black slaves and the white slaves and the eunuchs and pages and boys stood, and of the slave-girls some sat and some stood.
Then he bade one of hiseunuchs carry her on a camel to one of the far-off wilds and cut-off wolds and there leave her and wend his ways, and he forbade her torment to be prolonged.
Egyptian priests were eunuchs who had sacrificed their virility as a first-fruit to the gods.
In India, men who are born eunuchs or in some way deformed are sometimes dedicated to a goddess named Huligamma.
And when he had ended his reciting he swooned away and did not recover his senses till the morning, at which time there came to him one of his father's eunuchs and, standing at his head, summoned him to the King's presence.
Presently the Princess entered the garden with her damsels and with the old woman, who said to herself, "If these eunuchs stay with us, we shall not attain our end.
This is he," replied they; and behold, he came forward and the Wazir observed him narrowly and saw him to be an old man of grave and dignified carriage, with eunuchs and servants and black slaves.
So all who were in Baghdad fared forth and met the Prince and escorted him to the palace and kissed the thresholds, whilst the damsels and the eunuchs went in to his mother and gave her the fair tidings of his return.
Soon after the birth of a child in Gujarat the hated Hijras or eunuchs crowd round the house for gifts.
Children born in the condition of eunuchs are usually made over to the Khasuas by their parents.
The conspirators penetrated the palace unsuspected--put the eunuchs who encountered them to death --and reached the chamber in which the usurper himself was seated with his brother.
In despotic Persia, all history dies away in the dark recesses and sanguinary murthers of a palace governed by eunuchs and defended but by slaves.
The eunuchs are such as care for the things that please the Lord, when the married careth for the things that please his wife.
And when two parts shall be cut off and die, the eunuchs that keep the Sabbath shall have an everlasting name, which shall not be cut off.
The tutor, who was obliged to leave the charge of his pupils' sleeping apartments to the eunuchs and nurses, drew back, but Iras felt it a bitter affront to be excluded from this visit.
The couches were separated by a heavy curtain which the eunuchs had raised at the approach of the Queen.
One of the two eunuchs appointed to watch Rhodanes and Sinonis, 57 SAC-AE'A.
The penalty for negligence was loss of ears and nose, and that penalty the eunuchs suffered.
One of the two eunuchsappointed to watch Rhodanes and Sinonis, 57 DAM-AS'CI-US.
Having heard of this beforehand, Theodora ordered hereunuchs to surround the patrician in a body on his arrival, and to listen to what was said by her, so that they might reply in a set form of words previously suggested by her.
When the Empress learned that he had amassed much treasure in the East; she sent one of the palace eunuchs to fetch it away to the Court.
Antonina, who did not understand what was going on, begged eagerly to be shown the pearl, whereupon Theodora led Theodosius by the hand out of the chamber of one of her eunuchs and displayed him to her.
He hates whatever succeeds, as the eunuchs hate those who enjoy; he is one of the serpents of literature who nourish themselves on dirt and spite; he is a folliculaire.
The Aga, who was a very gallant man, took his whole seraglio with him, and lodged us in a small fort on the Palus Méotides, guarded by two black eunuchs and twenty soldiers.
So the house-master went out, that he might see what might be the matter, and found ten head of the Caliph's eunuchs at the entrance.
Queen Kamariyah bade her Eunuchs gather up all this and lay it in Tohfah's closet and it was as much in value as all that had fallen to her, from the first of the festivities to the last thereof.
So I kissed his hand and thanked him and, as I was walking about, waiting, up came the guards and eunuchs escorting the women, who were weeping and shrieking and farewelling one another.
FN#480] now there remained one woman after her: so we took her and drowned her and the eunuchswent away, whilst we dropped down the river till we came to where I saw my mistress awaiting me.
Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
The old woman therefore said, O my mistress, thou hast no need of these eunuchs at the present time; nor will thy heart be dilated as long as they are with us: so dismiss them from us.
The white eunuchs have charge of the outer gates of the seraglio, but they are not allowed to approach the women's apartments, and obtain no posts of distinction.
The security of the harem is in the hands of a body of eunuchs both black and white.
The black eunuchs have the right of entering the gardens and chambers of the harem.
Now the darkness came, and at the appointed hour Janees, hardening his heart, went up into the chamber where dwelt Tua and Asti, leaving his guard of eunuchs at the door.
The round chubby faces of the figures recall the bas-reliefs of Khorsabad, which represent the eunuchs of the Ninevite palace.
These personages, some of whom played an important part at court, like the Kislar-Agha, or chief of the black eunuchs at Constantinople, are characterised by their fleshy and sensual countenances.
But the sufferings of these eunuchs did not end here; they were, on account of this odd 5,000l.
He had the Begums and their eunuchs under his custody for a full year; he was strictly ordered to watch them and to guard them; and during all that time he lived at Fyzabad.
If these eunuchs had behaved in this way, if they had headed armies and commanded legions for the purposes of rebellion, it would have been a fair presumption that their mistresses were concerned in it.
In this state the country in fact continued; Munny Begum and her eunuchs continued to administer and squander the Company's money, as well as the Nabob's; robberies and murders continued to prevail throughout the country.
The eunuchs were a year in irons, and they were subjected to the want of food and water for a part of that year.
This anonymous communication enabled us to produce all the correspondence with Mr. Middleton respecting the cruelties exercised towards the Begums and theireunuchs in order to extort money.
The two principal eunuchs of the Begums were Jewar and Behar Ali Khân, persons of as high rank and estimation as any people in the country.
Again were the parchment faces of the wrinkled eunuchs radiant in sallow lustre.
Yet it does not appear that theeunuchs had assumed any of the efficient offices of the empire, and he is styled only Praepositun sacri cubiculi, in the edict of his banishment.
The generals, under a perfidious promise of safety, were sent on shipboard, and privately executed; while the favor of the eunuchs procured them a mild and secure exile at Milan and Constantinople.
Footnote 4: After lamenting the progress of the eunuchs in the Roman palace, and defining their proper functions, Claudian adds, A fronte recedant.
Under the weakest of the predecessors of Arcadius, the reign of the eunuchs had been secret and almost invisible.
Thus it befel Nur al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-girl; but as regards her sire the King of France, when he arose in the morning, he missed his daughter and questioned her women and her eunuchs of her.
Moreover Kut al-Kulub generously presented him the house and all that was therein of furniture and hangings and white slaves and slave-girls and eunuchs great and small.
This pleased him and behold, up came Khalif, with eunuchs and little white slaves, bearing all manner sherbets, compounded with sugar and lemon and perfumed with rose and willow-water and the purest musk.
It is a sad place, a soft place, a place for weaklings and eunuchs and fat, sobbing shadows of men.
Character and private Life of the Emperor--His Eunuchs and Women.
About court, however, a particular class of eunuchs only are entrusted with feeling the pulse of the ladies.
The Chinese eunuchs are addicted to all the vices that distinguish these creatures in other countries.
Numerous instances are said to be on record, wherein the eunuchs have prevailed on the sovereign to swallow the immortal liquor which seldom failed to dispatch him.
Such as take up the profession are generally of an inferior class; and the eunuchs about the palace are considered among their best physicians.
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
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