gentle sex
Example Sentences
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And the gentle sex, especially, would and did tell fortunes almost as jealously as play quadrille and piquet.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson
I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone,— A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon.
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
"You see, there are no women in our country; and six months without a word or a smile from your gentle sex makes a man ready to hate himself and his fellow-creatures."
From The Silver Horde by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Oh! by the mildness of thy gentle sex, Attend my prayer.
From Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller
Yes; and I fancy that melancholy air assists him very much in vanquishing the gentle sex.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
