the sterner sex

However, everyone agreed that she knew very well how to fool the sterner sex.

It sounds to a man's understanding as if women had hitherto been kept in disagreeable subjection to the stronger and sterner sex.

You see" "She preferred the sterner sex.

These letters were, however, combined with others from the sterner sex, and some of them were not altogether free from personal invective.

Betty needs some one of the sterner sex to cheer her," said Alice, mischievously, her eyes twinkling. "

A prominent feature of the reception was the number of ladies present, not very much less in fact than the number of the sterner sex.

Entering a field of endeavor which had heretofore been exclusively occupied by the sterner sex, this lady displayed a taste for hot meals that would seem to recommend her as a matrimonial venture.

The sterner sex forced upon us pocket-knives new and jagged, combs, soap, slippers, boxes of matches, cigars by the dozen and the hundred, pipes to smoke shag and pipes to smoke Latakia, fruit, eggs, and sandwiches.

Noah Claypole, bespeaking his good lady's attention, proceeded to enlighten her relative to the arrangement he had made, with all that haughtiness and air of superiority, becoming, not only a member of the sterner sex, but a gentleman who appreciated the dignity of a special appointment on the kinchin lay, in London and its vicinity.