softer sex

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"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.

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

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

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

All, or nearly all, her acquaintances were of, I was going to say the harder, but upon my life I believe the real epithet would be the softer sex.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James