gentle sex
Example Sentences
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And the gentle sex, especially, would and did tell fortunes almost as jealously as play quadrille and piquet.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward
Oh! by the mildness of thy gentle sex, Attend my prayer.
From Maid of Orleans by Schiller, Friedrich
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
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
He is greater, and will be loved more hereafter by the gentle sex.
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
