softer sex

Example Sentences

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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

And, as in the case made famous by Cowper, of the "softer sex" and the old-fashioned iron-cushioned arm-chairs, the old man had, as became his years, "'gan murmur."

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

While Mr. Dempsey hurried away to seek Mrs. Fumbally herself, the confusion and uproar increased; the loud, coarse laughter of the "Gentlemen" being added to the wrathful violence of the softer sex.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

I resolved to follow that rule of polite society, which extends priority to the softer sex.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

This inconsiderate partiality of the softer sex might be cavilled at, but to Chittaranjan it did not seem unpleasant.

From Mashi and Other Stories by Tagore, Rabindranath