What is "castrates"

Usage examples of "castrates".

There was no need for Vencel to know: it was useful to have some of the castrates grateful to her as well as afraid.

The castrates were notoriously prone to lassitude and to eating too much—the obvious substitutions for pleasure.

Slim as he'd been when she met him, he still sought out those errands the other castrates strove to avoid: trips up into the steep streets of the old town, or even farther north into the hills or partway up Sangarios itself in search of healing herbs or leaves or simply meadow flowers for her room.

It was a standard practice—with some quite unstan-dard variations—for the women of the saishan to use their castrates to give them physical release if too much time went by between summonses to the other wing.

For a man other than the King or one of the castrates to see, let alone hold converse with a saishan woman was death for both of them.

The two of them went the other way, passing two young castrates who were moving toward Vencel's rooms.

Normally at this hour the corridors would be loud with the stir and bustle of the castrates, fragrant and colorful with the scented presence of women moving languorously to the baths or to their morning meal.

He had never heard of a man with full-blown breasts, except for the chosen castrates who claimed to have converted to women.

The castrates of the court, who really ought to have known better, were flayed and skinned and then staked out on the cleared ground beyond the Silvenes Gate.

There were knifings, and one attempt at poisoning, before the harem-mistresses and the castrates managed to reassert a measure of control.

But Grimm shoots Christmas five times, then castrates him and yells, "Now you'll let white women alone.

They were only partial castrates as he would have been, had the breed queen's thrust at him scored.

His voice darkening, the false notes fading quickly, Hawkes continued, adding, "No tugging on his nails with pliers, no inserting thin glass tubes into his urethra and then bombarding him with sexual images until he goes erect and castrates himself.