softer sex

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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

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

All, or nearly all, her acquaintances were of, I was going to say the harder, but upon my life I believe the real epithet would be the softer sex.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James

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