softer sex
Example Sentences
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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
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
"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 Broadbent, R. J.
Nor was he less favoured and admired by the softer sex.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William
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
