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
“You are in a city, my dear lady, where insults to the fair sex never go unpunished.”
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish
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 Mary Henrietta Kingsley
She had the same desire as the majority of wealthy American girls: a great title of nobility in order to make her friends among the fair sex jealous and to shine in European circles.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
As in Madrid men are not remarkable for respect for the fair sex, he used to overhear, in spite of himself, complimentary speeches, or even bold addresses from the passers-by to his mother.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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