fair sex
Example Sentences
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The book American and Other Drinks touts the ladies’ blush as a "favourite drink among the fair sex," neglecting to cite its popularity with aspiring hyperglycemics.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2013
I was once a witness of his haughty treatment of a Leipsic pupil of the fair sex, who came to him one day and asked him 'to give her a few lessons.'
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
Monsieur des Ageaux was a man of whom his best friends could not say that he shone, or tried to shine, in the pursuit of the fair sex.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman
On behalf of the earthly fair sex, I must emphatically protest against this part of the heavenly arrangements.
From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote
Whatever Frenchman would care to go to a land where he needs must be sufficiently indifferent to the fair sex to smear himself with butter!
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
