softer sex
Example Sentences
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"And I recollect you also," said Charles, advancing to the young man with a manner very different from that which characterized him in his intercourse with the softer sex.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
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
The instrumental performance was illustrated and completed with a multitude of harmonious voices, and those who sang were each of them of the softer sex.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William
It was vis-à-vis a party of four persons,—two of the sterner, two of the softer sex.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 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)
