softer sex
Example Sentences
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While Mr. Dempsey hurried away to seek Mrs. Fumbally herself, the confusion and uproar increased; the loud, coarse laughter of the "Gentlemen" being added to the wrathful violence of the softer sex.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
"Jane Shore" has supplanted "Barnwell," and the anxieties of the age, are, it would appear, now directed towards the softer sex.
From A History of Pantomime by Broadbent, R. J.
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)
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
