gentle sex

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This affecting spectacle was too much for John, who not only felt the chivalrous desire of a man to help the gentle sex, but remembered that he owed the girl a good turn for her hospitality the day before, not to mention the apology he quite burned to make.

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You—who love to hear the screaming of a girl beneath the knife, In the midst of your companions, with their craning, eager necks; When you crown your German mercy, and you take a sobbing life— You are not exactly gentlemen towards the gentle sex.

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By S. Gilmer, D. D. The work is worthy of the eminent clergyman, who has given us the delineation of one of the loveliest characters among the good and gifted of the gentle sex.

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And one week he cut loose grandly upon woman suffrage, after he had first expressed his chivalric admiration for the "gentle sex" and quoted Sir Walter Scott: "Oh, woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please," etc., etc.

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Sturdy, handsome, and stalwart, dressed in riding-breeches and gaiters, a khaki jacket, and a wide-brimmed hat, and with his upper lip adorned by a thin line of fair hair, which looked almost white when contrasted with his sunburnt face, he was a young man whom any of the gentle sex might have looked upon with pleasure.

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