gentle sex
Example Sentences
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He was called an able man, but his foibles were precisely of the sort to create in the large-hearted of the gentle sex an almost masculine antipathy to their spiritual pastor.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
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
Yes; and I fancy that melancholy air assists him very much in vanquishing the gentle sex.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
