softer sex
Example Sentences
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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 Mayne Reid
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 William Godwin
With the dream of his youth vanished all predilection for the softer sex.
From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by John Turvill Adams
About three o'clock of a roseate day in early spring two fashionables of the softer sex, elegantly arrayed, might have been observed sauntering languidly down Fifth Avenue.
From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various
"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
