But a woman must now and then ingratiate herself at the expense of her sex.
For she possessed eminently the practical nature of her sex; and though she would have scorned, and would have declined to handle coin so base, its absence was upbraidingly mentioned in her spiritual outcries.
The rascal had won or partly won the empress of her sex!
So the Old Buccaneer was ever after that her lawful husband, and as his wedded wife, not wedded to a fool, she was an example to her sex, like many another woman who has begun badly with a light-headed mate.
The world of men and women was mere timber and leafage to this flower of her sex, glory of her kind.
This prophecy has not only a personal and specific fulfilment, as pointing to the speaker herself, but a transitive and general application, as referring to her sex at large.
But if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only female whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia.
It was to their counsels, which governed the weakness of her sex, that she imputed the guilt of her obstinate resistance; it was on their heads that she directed the vengeance of the cruel Aurelian.
Zenobia was esteemed the most lovely as well as the most heroic of her sex.
She possessed, even in advanced age, the attractions of beauty, and united to a lively imagination a firmness of mind, and strength of judgment, seldom bestowed on her sex.
No woman was ever steadily sensible for that period; and I will engage, if that will please you, Flora shall be as unreasonable to-morrow as any of her sex.
Nevertheless, she summoned them to her support and met him full armed with the evasions and complexities of her sex.
But it was conceivable that this might be a generous blind to cover up his knowledge of her sex.
Frances was exceedingly eager to don again the clothes proper to her sex, and she had promised herself that, once habited as she desired, nothing could induce her ever to masquerade again.
You mean to ask me if I like to SEE medicine-men perform," answered Margery, with the readiness of her sex.
Angela Sovrani was a rare type of her sex,--unlike any other woman in the world, so those who knew her best were wont to declare.
This ancient representative of woman's rights in Virginia did honor to her sex.
And how interesting she is--adding so much knowledge of life to the complex interest that inheres in her sex!
She has no sooner taken up one than she sees another that seems better, or more important in the development of her sex, and she flies to that.
She had all Winton's dandyism, and just so much more as was appropriate to her sex.
To tell him seemed disloyalty to her sex; not to tell him, disloyalty to her husband.
But Mrs. Wainwright was not to be deterred from an exciting espousal of the cause of her sex.
Coke had a wooden-headed conviction that he must make Nora understand Marjory's infinite superiority to all others of her sex, and so he passed into a pariegyric, each word of which was a hot coal to the girl addressed.
Upon the instant that the professor strenuously opposed her she becamean apostle, an enlightened, uplifted apostle to the world on the wrongs of her sex.
The terms he uses, and the spirit in which he writes, intimate plainly that his own wife, who was remarkable for her devotion to God and her affectionate attachment to her husband, was also the most obedient of her sex.
But a few days had past since She appeared the mildest and softest of her sex, devoted to his will, and looking up to him as to a superior Being.
She has done quite the contrary: She strove to keep me in ignorance of her sex; and nothing but the fear of detection, and my instances, would have compelled her to reveal the secret.
His ideas became less bewildered: He was immediately sensible of the extreme impropriety, should Matilda be permitted to remain in the Abbey after this avowal of her sex.
A Male of the lowest type of the Isosceles may look forward to some improvement of his angle, and to the ultimate elevation of the whole of his degraded caste; but no Woman can entertain such hopes for her sex.
With the usual hastiness and unreasoning jealousy of her Sex, she flew at once to the conclusion that a Woman had entered the house through some small aperture.
She is the woman who is affronted when a man avers that for him the glory of woman lies in her power of attraction, in her capacity for motherhood, and in unswerving allegiance to the ethics which are special to her sex.
Moreover, wherever the special interest of women are involved, any woman may count on being listened to if she is voicing the opinions of any considerable section of her sex.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her sex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
