softer sex

Example Sentences

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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

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

A lover in Kahiki-nui--of the softer sex, it would appear-- looks across the wind-swept channel and sends her thoughts lovingly, yearningly, over to Kona of Hawaii, which district she personifies as her lover.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright

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

A prince, with eunuchs and the softer sex Shut up so long, would warlike nations vex, Provoke the German, and, neglecting heaven, Forget the truce for which his oath was given.

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir