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 Prime-Stevenson, Edward
He was called an able man, but his foibles were precisely of the sort to create in the large-hearted of the gentle sex an almost masculine antipathy to their spiritual pastor.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
Never before had the semblance of a woman appeared, never before had an intimation been given that the gentle sex existed in these silent chambers.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri
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
He is greater, and will be loved more hereafter by the gentle sex.
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
