softer sex
Example Sentences
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The instrumental performance was illustrated and completed with a multitude of harmonious voices, and those who sang were each of them of the softer sex.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William
With the dream of his youth vanished all predilection for the softer sex.
From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill
It is worth observing, that Fatamah, the proper name of Mahomet's daughter, is here used, by excess of delicacy, to describe the softer sex, more especially ladies.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
"Jane Shore" has supplanted "Barnwell," and the anxieties of the age, are, it would appear, now directed towards the softer sex.
From A History of Pantomime by Broadbent, R. J.
Our friend," he continued, "is described to me as a brawny, shaggy, grim, and ill-favored personage, not particularly well calculated, one would say, to insinuate himself with the softer sex.
From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
