softer sex
Example Sentences
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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)
"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
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
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
Our friend," he continued, "is described to me as a brawny, shaggy, grim, and ill-favored personage, not particularly well calculated, one would say, to insinuate himself with the softer sex.
From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
