softer sex

Example Sentences

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Warm-hearted friends watched and guarded him with intense and unwearied solicitude; the kindest hearted of the softer sex, the best of the best, seems to have been born only to anticipate his wants.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

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

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

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

The politicians who joke about three acres and a cow, the writers who are comic about mothers-in-law, the very boot-blacks have your solicitude, but you ignore their complements in the softer sex.

From Better Dead by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)