softer sex
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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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 Charles James Lever
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 James Richardson
"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 R. J. Broadbent
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