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
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
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
From time to time, I glanced at that assemblage of the fair sex, every member of which, with one exception, was exceedingly ugly.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
“You are in a city, my dear lady, where insults to the fair sex never go unpunished.”
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish
