Young males cannot be distinguished from young females until above twelve months old; and if the male is emasculated before this period, he never, according to the same authority, changes colour.
As with animals of all classes, so with man, the distinctive characters of the male sex are not fully developed until he is nearly mature; and if emasculated they never appear.
The emasculated bull reverts to the colour of the female.
In both classes the male assumes the characters proper to his sex shortly before the age for reproduction; if emasculated he either never acquires such characters or subsequently loses them.
New England had been literally emasculated by the Civil War, or rather by the exodus of young men westward which was more or less synchronous with the war.
For is it not plain now that the cultural domination of this emasculated New England simply played into the hands of the business regime?
But what seemed solid ground to Altiora and the ultimate footing of her emasculated world, was to me just the superficial covering of a gulf--oh!
The world was never so emasculated in thought, I suppose, as it was in the Victorian time.
Deep breasts and rounded limbs--and we poor emasculated devils go tramping by with the blood of youth in us!
Our present culture is based on an emasculated and mendacious study of antiquity.
No emasculated man was allowed to enter the priesthood or assist at sacrifices.
The controls which were not emasculated and not hand pollinated, show that the trees are practically completely self sterile; only an occasional nut is set from self-fertilization.
On these trees some flowering branches were bagged which had been emasculated normally, on other branches only the unisexual catkins were removed, while the bisexual catkins were left intact.
The flower is generally emasculated by pulling out the anthers with pincers, but some large anthers can be hooked out easily by a very small crochet-hook or by a pin bent to a minute hook upon the point.
As soon as the flower is emasculated it must be securely tied up with a bag, to exclude pollen, as seen in Fig.
I saw yesterday one of these emasculated specimens of humanity arrayed in a suit of velvet knickerbockers, with a red cross on his arm, borne off to prison, notwithstanding his whining protests.
An amendment to this effect emasculated the main purposes of the treaty and left the subject of arbitration substantially as it would be without any treaties.
It was generally agreed that the law as originally passed fully provided the remedy that was intended, but it had been emasculated by the decisions of the Supreme Court.
The authority and responsibility residing ultimately in the people must be delegated; and it must not be emasculated in the process of delegation.
But like the rest of the Federalist organization and ideas, the national foreign policy was emasculatedby the expression it received at the hands of the Republicans.
Pompey being the old emasculated lion who appeared to the public in the same cage with Brutus).
Peace under existing conditions has unmanned the nation; it has emasculated the people and sapped their manhood.
Not only is there an emasculated theology, but there is not a little emasculated preaching.
Moreover, the present peace is only nominal, for by it we have become emasculated and cowardly.
A man who is unchaste loses stamina, becomes emasculated and cowardly.
In both classes the male assumes the characters proper to his sex shortly before the age of reproduction; and if emasculated at an early period, loses them.
Young males cannot be distinguished from young females until about twelve months old; and if the male is emasculatedbefore this period, he never, according to the same authority, changes colour.
Certainly the Romans were familiar with the Galli, the emasculated priests of Attis, before the close of the Republic.
A few disconsolate men hung about the emasculated bars trying to rouse their sluggish spirits on colicky draughts of near beer and grape juice, but the effect was dismal and forbidding.
Any other morality, whatever pretty name it may display, is the emasculated morality of slaves.
Baldness is more frequent in males than in females; and it has been observed, that emasculated subjects are exempt from its visitation.
Pope, perhaps from these very reasons, was inexhaustible in his abuse of the sex: and Boileau abhorred them, since he had been emasculated by a turkey-cock.
We do desire to destroy a system that has emasculated our country in body, mind and soul.
None but emasculated nations would accept such difficulties and responsibilities as an answer to the demand for freedom.
Whilst therefore I say that rather than have the yoke of a Government that has so emasculated us, I would welcome violence.
We have acted as if our people had no right of information concerning the West-Indies and South-America, until it had gone to Europe and been emasculated of all its virtues.
A dependence on foreigners for this supply of information, which never reaches us until it is emasculated of its virtues, is extremely hazardous.
Both the sacred prostitutes andemasculated priests were held in religious veneration.
In order to realize this ideal obstacles were introduced that they might be overcome; in the old myth, Adonis was emasculated under a pine tree, and in Egypt Osiris was similarly mutilated, his sex organs being lost.
These deities were attended by emasculated priests and the priests in oriental costume paraded Rome in religious ceremony.
What an emasculated band of dramatists have deployed upon our boards.
