| People expect a political scientist to be objective, some kind of political eunuch. |
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| She clapped her little white hands for her attending eunuch, and let the flabby monster wrap her in her mantle. |
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| 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. |
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| The exclusion of the eunuch is ideologically accomplished by designating him as ritually impure. |
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| This expression would render us both socially unique and a political eunuch. |
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| 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. |
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| In the chain of the covenantal family, the foreigner has no past and the eunuch no future. |
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| In the first reading Philip runs alongside the chariot of the Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the queen. |
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| As the traditional sense of the word seems to imply, not every person referred to as a eunuch was necessarily castrated. |
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| He was also a eunuch of such beauty that the sultan fell for his epicene handsomeness and appointed him his senior commander. |
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| A descendent of a famous eunuch of the Ching Dynasty is suing a Taipei hospital for medical malpractice. |
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| It is being run by champagne socialists and intellectual snobs and the Mayor is a eunuch. |
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| Therefore I'm currently enjoying the status of a political eunuch. |
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| In Acts 8:36-37, The Ethiopian eunuch had to fulfill two requirements, before he could be baptized. |
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| Even compared with his personage in Casino Royale, the 007 of Quantum is basically a grunting eunuch. |
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| If sprinkling of water were enough, why did Philip and the eunuch go «down into the water»? |
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| Abyssinian tradition, however, asserted that the eunuch whom Philip baptized had evangelized Abyssinia in the apostolic age. |
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| The tradition identifying Hathach, the eunuch of the royal palace, with Daniel is quite widespread. |
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| As a eunuch he was excluded from the inner parts of the temple. |
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| 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. |
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| This is the voice that the Holy Spirit gave to Philip, for him to preach the gospel to the Ethiopian eunuch. |
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| How do we know that the Ethiopian eunuch and JESUS were not baptized by sprinkling of water? |
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| Mr Staes, I should like to point out to you that a Parliament in which we have so many female colleagues cannot, by its very nature, be a eunuch! |
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| It's like a man who celebrates the day of his castration, as a eunuch. |
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| I always felt a bit like a court eunuch when I was around him. |
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| Or how kicking a reaction-less eunuch in the crotch over and over again is comedy. |
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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. |
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| A slight difficulty is caused in the Abyssinian account by the fact that they have applied to themselves, with all the other biblical references to Ethiopia, the famous story of Philip and the eunuch. |
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| Fausta learned of the plot and warned Constantine, who put a eunuch in his own place in bed. |
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| Maximian was apprehended when he killed the eunuch and was offered suicide, which he accepted. |
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| Zheng He, a court eunuch, would not have had the privilege in rank to command the largest of these ships, seaworthy or not. |
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| It was finally stabilized by the eunuch Li Xing during the public works projects following the 1494 flood. |
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| He is the only writer to use the term eunuch about Jesus, using the Latin word spado, a common word for a castrated or impotent man. |
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| Behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. |
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| The emperor Julian recalled his pedagogue Mardonius, a eunuch slave who reared him from the age of 7 to 15, with affection and gratitude. |
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| The Shakers and some Indian eunuch brotherhoods do not allow procreation, so that every member is a convert. |
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| This included a massive purge of the Confucian scholars in Nanjing and grants of extraordinary extralegal authority to the eunuch secret police. |
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| In 1411, a smaller fleet, built in Jilin and commanded by another eunuch Yishiha, who was a Jurchen, sailed down the Sungari and Amur Rivers. |
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| At times, the most influential eunuch in the Directorate of Ceremonial acted as a de facto dictator over the state. |
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| The treasure voyages were commanded and overseen by the eunuch establishment whose political influence was heavily dependent on imperial favor. |
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| In contrast, the eunuch establishment stood at the head of the fleet and the expeditions. |
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| Traditionally, they were political opponents of the eunuch establishment, but also to the military establishments who crewed the fleet. |
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| Ecstatic dancing was a feature of the international mystery religions, particularly the cult of Cybele as practised by her eunuch priests the Galli and of Isis. |
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| Power in Constantinople now passed to the eunuch Chamberlain Eutropius. |
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| This documentary offers a rare insight into the lives of four Indian hijras or eunuchs as theyattendthe annual Koovagam Festival, the biggest eunuch gathering in India. |
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| And in Astapor, Daenerys's negotiations with the vile slave trader for his army of eunuch soldiers has her advisors wondering if she has lost her mind. |
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| The newly appointed Grand Secretary, Yang Tinghe, soon turned against the powerful eunuch influence at court, which had grown even more powerful under the Zhengde Emperor. |
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