gentle sex
Example Sentences
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In writing of authors of the gentle sex, his ink-pot became a pot of honey.
From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Stanard, Mary Newton
As a lady's companion he is hard to beat; indeed, a glance at any show catalogue will prove that the majority of Borzois are owned by the gentle sex.
From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert
I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone,— A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon.
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence
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
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.]
