She often owned large landed estates in her own name and controlled them through black eunuch servants.

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There is an interesting thing with the eunuch, who's the third sex character that Meera Syal develops.

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Meanwhile, the Saudis, our paramount enemies, just sit back and smirk after making a court eunuch of yet another American president.

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The eunuch's opponents were from a local cricket club called the Olympians, while the eunuchs' team was called Sanam (Beloved) XI.

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Listening to them is like hearing a eunuch lecture on sex: He may have studied the topic but really knows little about the mechanics.

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Fire was always a threat to the wooden palace and blazes were frequent, with the main culprits being wayward fireworks displays and knocked-over lanterns, as well as the odd angry eunuch.

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Yet, to give Stone his due, he was prepared to take on the chin the welter of homophobic criticism he received for depicting his hero in close homoerotic encounter with the Persian eunuch.

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For instance, a tablet from the museum, translated so recently that it only just made the show, names Sarsachim, a Babylonian eunuch who is also listed in the Book of Jeremiah as one of Nebuchadnezzar's henchmen at the siege of Jerusalem.

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The nine-hour Belfast tour (an epic in itself) takes in sites around Northern Ireland, including the caves where red priestess Melisandre of Asshai gave birth to an evil shadow-baby assassin, and Ballycastle, setting for the Free Cities where the eunuch Lord Varys was born as a slave.

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