gentle sex
Example Sentences
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Never before had the semblance of a woman appeared, never before had an intimation been given that the gentle sex existed in these silent chambers.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
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
"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 Rex Ellingwood Beach
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 Frederic Lawrence Knowles
In writing of authors of the gentle sex, his ink-pot became a pot of honey.
From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Newton Stanard
