fair sex
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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
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
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
He then turned to another of the fair sex, with the same result.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
In my day, however, the Great Three-Hundred-a-Year Marriage-Question was not yet broached, and gentlemen did not complainingly publish their rejections at the hands of the fair sex in the "Times" newspaper.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
