gentle sex

Example Sentences

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"You see, there are no women in our country; and six months without a word or a smile from your gentle sex makes a man ready to hate himself and his fellow-creatures."

From The Silver Horde by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Oh! by the mildness of thy gentle sex, Attend my prayer.

From Maid of Orleans by Schiller, Friedrich

He is greater, and will be loved more hereafter by the gentle sex.

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

From chance meetings in the street, from stray conversations overheard, he had been led to take an unreasoning dislike to this foreigner, whose attitude towards the gentle sex struck him as that of a cur.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

Christina was gone, and the gentle sex was no longer represented in the monastery of Trooditissa.

From Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir