gentle sex
Example Sentences
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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 Holme Lee
As a lady's companion he is hard to beat; indeed, a glance at any show catalogue will prove that the majority of Borzois are owned by the gentle sex.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
He is greater, and will be loved more hereafter by the gentle sex.
From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
From chance meetings in the street, from stray conversations overheard, he had been led to take an unreasoning dislike to this foreigner, whose attitude towards the gentle sex struck him as that of a cur.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
Christina was gone, and the gentle sex was no longer represented in the monastery of Trooditissa.
From Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 by Sir Samuel White Baker
