softer sex
Example Sentences
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This inconsiderate partiality of the softer sex might be cavilled at, but to Chittaranjan it did not seem unpleasant.
From Mashi and Other Stories by Tagore, Rabindranath
I resolved to follow that rule of polite society, which extends priority to the softer sex.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
About three o'clock of a roseate day in early spring two fashionables of the softer sex, elegantly arrayed, might have been observed sauntering languidly down Fifth Avenue.
From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various
The politicians who joke about three acres and a cow, the writers who are comic about mothers-in-law, the very boot-blacks have your solicitude, but you ignore their complements in the softer sex.
From Better Dead by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
Warm-hearted friends watched and guarded him with intense and unwearied solicitude; the kindest hearted of the softer sex, the best of the best, seems to have been born only to anticipate his wants.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
