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
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 Frederic Lawrence Knowles
My fellow-voyagers were mostly French, some of them of the gentle sex, and chattered like pies until they fell asleep.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
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
