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women as a class
it's an insult to American womanhood
woman is the glory of creation
the fair sex gathered on the veranda
How To Use fair sex In A Sentence
- A visitor to the city in 1744 was told by his guide “that to walk out after dusk upon this platform was a good way for a stranger to fit himself with a courtezan, for that place was the generall rendezvous of the fair sex of that profession after sun set with a good choice of pritty lasses among them, both English and Dutch.” Angel in the Whirlwind
- 'Perfectly! your Irishman is the delicatest man upon earth to the fair sex; for he always talks of their cruelty, if they are never so kind. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
- There are more female lunatics chiefly because the fumigatory education of the fair sex has been neglected. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861
- The performer, now onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in "Krapp's Last Tape," will participate in a Q&A following the Tuesday screening of "Scandal" 1989, a fictionalization of the 1963 Profumo affair sex scandal. Humanity's Many Faces
- 'Perfectly! your Irishman is the delicatest man upon earth to the fair sex; for he always talks of their cruelty, if they are never so kind. Camilla
- Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom Ulysses
- It cannot assure information authenticity, accuracy, integrality, seasonable sex , fair sex.
- the fair sex
- It's rough and demanding and I feel it would be undignified and demeaning for the fair sex to be taking part in such a spectacle.
- The hanging Tower at Pisa is, we believe, some thirty feet or so off the perpendicular, and there is one at Caerphilly about seventeen; but these are nothing to the castles in the air we have seen built by the touch of a female magician; nor is it an unusual thing with artists of the fair sex to order their plumed chivalry to gallop down precipices considerably steeper than a house, on animals apparently produced between the tiger and the bonassus. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2