gentle sex

Example Sentences

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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 Leighton, Robert

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

I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone,— A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon.

From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

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

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 Douglas, Norman