This eunuch was keeper of the imperial treasury, and presumed so much on the favour and confidence which he enjoyed with his master, that he took his choice of all the goods he wanted from the merchant by force, regardless of every thing that the merchant could say.

This eunuch was a blacker man than I; like me, he was a man of the desert.

Two of the chief means of attaining power were for such a clique to give the emperor a girl from its ranks as wife, and to see to it that all the eunuchs around the emperor should be persons dependent on the clique.

From the days of Semiramis, eunuchs have been commonplace figures of the East, their function definite: to guard the harems of the powerful.

The eunuchs who make themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake, are spiritual eunuchs, who are such as in marriages abstain from the evils of whoredoms: that Italian eunuchs are not meant, is evident.

As Asiatic princes in general pass the most part of their time in the haram or in seclusion, eunuchs are the usual carriers of messages, &c. The posture of respect, as to stand motionless like a statue, the eyes fixed on the ground, and the arms crossed over the waist.