fair sex
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The book American and Other Drinks touts the ladies’ blush as a "favourite drink among the fair sex," neglecting to cite its popularity with aspiring hyperglycemics.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2013
The thief did not confine his attentions to the fair sex; but visited us men as well.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)
Whatever Frenchman would care to go to a land where he needs must be sufficiently indifferent to the fair sex to smear himself with butter!
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
On behalf of the earthly fair sex, I must emphatically protest against this part of the heavenly arrangements.
From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Neither men nor women wore earrings; but the fair sex wore a kind of velvet ribbon necklace round their neck, and on this ribbon were sewn ornaments of molten lead, silver, and other metals.
From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage
