gentle sex
Example Sentences
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Oh! by the mildness of thy gentle sex, Attend my prayer.
From Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller
Oh how little do we know of those rapid lights and shadows which shift and tremble across the spirits of the gentle sex, when approaching to hold this tender communion with those whom they love.
From Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
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 Norman Douglas
"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 Rex Ellingwood Beach
And the gentle sex, especially, would and did tell fortunes almost as jealously as play quadrille and piquet.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson
