The male, which is the sex figured, is distinguished from the female by an oblique black streak across the middle of the front wings.
The antennae of the males are pectinated, and those of the females simple; and in three cases the latter sex is wingless.
The latter sex is further distinguished by the paler colour of the hind wings.
It may be mentioned, however, that the male (the sex figured) is smaller than the female, and is further distinguished by a broad dark oblique band passing across each fore wing.
As the result of the evolution of these two phylogenetic systems of motor phenomena tending to establish conjugation, we obtain for each sex two categories of sexual formations: (1).
Human society regards it as quite natural and without danger for individuals of the same sex to bathe, sleep and live together.
Among the termites, another species of social ants, a similar state of things exists, but the neuters, or workers, are derived from the male sex as well as the female and their sexual organs are quite rudimentary.
Vain women profit by the natural grace and beauty of their sex and person, not only to attract and please men, but also to shine among their fellows, to make other women pale before their brilliance and their elegance.
Each sex has the right to look upon the world and assimilate it according to its nature.
The phylogeny of art is still very obscure; Darwin attributes it to sexual attraction, through the efforts made by one sex to attract the other; but his arguments have never convinced me.
Erotic men often complain of the sexual coldness of their wives, which is disagreeable to them; for pleasure in one sex excites and completes that of the other.
This is the sex complex of the degenerate individual and in an effort to exterminate these pathological manifestations, they are being penalized by law, throughout the civilized world.
The first sexual sensations are of a quite indeterminate nature; something unconscious and obscure inclines the boy toward the female sex and makes it appear desirable.
A number of absolutely normal and intelligent women remain all their life completely cold from the sexual point of view, apart from the normally passive character of the female sex in coitus.
Female inverts have been known to wear men's uniforms and perform military service for years, and even behave as heroes; their sex sometimes only being discovered after their death.
It will then be the business of eachsex to choose the subject most suited to its abilities.
I scorn to turn traitor to a sex who, whatever may be their faults,--are always loyal to each other.
I trust I know my own sextoo well, so miserably to waste my time.
I find as much of this spirit, or the want of it, in one sex as in the other, and the children are the victims.
When Aurelian passed over into Asia, against an adversary whose sex alone could render her an object of contempt, his presence restored obedience to the province of Bithynia, already shaken by the arms and intrigues of Zenobia.
The male sex of every age must be extirpated; provided that, in the execution of the children and old men, you can contrive means to save our reputation.
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.
Conscious pride taught the German females to suppress every tender emotion that stood in competition with honor, and the first honor of the sex has ever been that of chastity.
With the decorous conduct of her sex she made not the attempt; but during the hour we wandered about the sleeping village in search of some boatmen to row us back to Auron, we could hear her lowing piteously.
Shouting with the shrill voice of her sex and age, she beckoned us to hasten to her aid.
Women are excluded because husbands are answerable in law for their wives, as to their civil damages, and because the very nature of their sex makes the exercise of this right incompatible with the harmony and happiness of society.
The red apes and black gorillas allowed their eyes to wander from their white leader to the two earth people.
Up to this time he had felt no fear of the gorillas.
He replaced the test tube within the center of the square and returned to the atomic machine.
The gome that gooth with o staf, He semeth in gretter heele Than he that gooth with two staves, To sighte of us alle.
It was the pestilence which gave rise to the Decameron of Boccaccio.
The importance of grammar is thus stated in the Image du Monde of Gautier de Metz (thirteenth century):-- Li primeraine des vij.
See my Essay on Anglo-Saxon Literature, introductory to vol.
In Old-English poetry, Caymes kyn is a common epithet for very wicked people.
In the first the perpetuation takes place from and by a particular act of an individual organism, which sometimes may not be classed as belonging to any sex at all.
They live in bands, but are not so numerous as the Chimpanzees: the females generally exceed the other sex in number.
It is impossible to imagine a more inconvenient out-door dress for our sex than the one worn here.
I was indebted to my sex for the few glimpses which I caught of them in the cabin; but among the whole eighteen women I did not see a single good-looking one.
Our poor sex ranks so low in the estimation of the Hindoos, that it is almost an insult to a person to mention any of his female relations.
Herewith the earle making still intercession for pardon, the lords humblie besought the king to grant it.
There were ambassadors sent into Germanie, to treat with the emperour for a marriage to be had, betwixt the king of England, and the emperours sister.
Also the earle of Suffolke was discharged of his office of lord chancellor, and Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie placed in his roome, by whole consent of parlement.
Neither sex appeared to have the secretive, terrestrial habits of G.
If to be of thy sex is so excellent, what is it then to be a woman enriched by nature, made excellent by education, noble by birth, chaste by virtue, adorned by beauty!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
