gentle sex
Example Sentences
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My fellow-voyagers were mostly French, some of them of the gentle sex, and chattered like pies until they fell asleep.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus
"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 Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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.]
He is greater, and will be loved more hereafter by the gentle sex.
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
