All this had no effect, the sailor was wholly insusceptive of the softer passions, and without regard to tears or arguments persisted in his resolution to make me a man.

but first , master see thee pass thy punto , thy stock , thy reverse , thy guest

1988 : He meant, because of Wagner, though he can't have been unaware of the discreetly homosexual style of the whole place, the waiters in tails with long white aprons, the rich older men treating their bored and flirtatious young dolly-boys. - Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 118)

“Where am I?” said the little spectre, in a pathetic voice. “And why was I born in the Calomel days, and why did I have all that Calomel given me?”