My friends and acquaintance of both sexes are permitted to visit me without interruption, without inquiring their business, and without the presence of a spy.
The consequence was, that at the moment the culprits were visible on the gallows, the barrier was forced down, and a number of persons of both sexes fell with it.
In vain, however, did the aged and youthful of both sexes appeal for compassion.
Every citizen of the two sexes from seventeen to fifty-five years of age shall be bound to pay each day one farthing, or 7½d.
Woman’s mission is to tame and humanize the ferocity of man’s disposition; and the more antagonistic are the characters of two beings of opposite sexes thus to be brought in contact with each other, the better for the purpose.
With all this romance and poetry there went a freedom of intercourse between the sexes that not infrequently led to serious immorality.
In many cases, children of both sexeswere taught, and girls and boys together learned Latin.
The chief article in the dress of both sexes was the garment called a cotte-hardie, consisting of a long robe reaching to the feet and confined at the waist by a girdle.
Among the Buddhists, the Jains and other religions the ratio between the sexes was more even.
When Alfonso V of Portugal took the African seaboard towns of Arzilla and Tangier, and carried off Jews of both sexes and every age captive, the Portuguese community became inspired with the pious desire to ransom them.
One Christmas-time Faustus gave a grand entertainment to certain distinguished persons of both sexes at Wittenberg.
While in the adult moths the colors in the two sexes are very distinct, at this time their wings are very similar.
The Promethea Moth is only about one-half the size of Cecropia, and the two sexes are very different in appearance; so much so that one would not at all think they were the same kind of moths.
The characteristics of the two sexes are practically the same, except that the female is somewhat the larger.
The differences between the sexes are not so manifest as in Promethea, yet it is not difficult to distinguish them.
In color, the sexes of Cecropia are much alike, but in this moth the differences in color are very great, the dominant color in the female being a reddish brown, while that in the male is a very dark-brown or almost black.
This bird differs from all of the woodpeckers in that the two sexes show a great difference in coloration.
In these Australian creepers the sexes are alike, or the female most conspicuous, and the nest is in a hole of a tree.
These showy Eastern starlings have thesexes exactly alike.
The comparative importance of the sexes varies much in different classes of animals.
Now the sexes of insects offer us a test of the nature here indicated, and appear to furnish one of the most conclusive arguments in favour of the theory that the phenomena termed "mimicry" are produced by natural selection.
A further confirmation of this view is to be found in the fact (not hitherto noticed) that in a large majority of the cases in which bright colours exist in both sexes incubation takes place in a dark hole or in a dome-shaped nest.
The fact of the two sexes of one species differing very considerably is so common, that it attracted but little attention till Mr. Darwin showed how it could in many cases be explained by the principle of sexual selection.
The sexes are exactly alike, and the nest is in a hollow tree.
The stinging Hymenoptera have the two sexes equally well coloured.
In the higher vertebrates, where the number of young produced at a birth is small and the same individuals breed many years in succession, the preservation of both sexes is almost equally important.
All the guests, of both sexes were splendidly arrayed, and the entertainment passed off with undiminished eclat.
The aggregate display gave a fair idea of what is going on in France in the normal schools, where teachers of bothsexes are being prepared for their work.
The male has not however the tufts of long black feathers on the side of the neck so conspicuous in the Atlantic pheasant, and bothsexes are booted nearly to the toes.
The females, with the same character of form, are more handsome; and both sexes appear cheerful and sprightly; but in our intercourse with them we discovered that they were cunning and vicious.
Children alone wear beads round their necks; grown persons of both sexes prefer them suspended in little bunches from the ear, and sometimes intermixed with triangular pieces of the shell of the pearl oyster.
Both sexes are more or less ornamented with large raised cicatrices on the shoulders and across the chest, abdomen, and buttocks, and outside of the thighs.
Many of both sexes were furnished with a large, round, fleshy caruncle on the bill at the base of the forehead--this is said to be present during the breeding season only.
At any rate, both sexes vied with each other in giving to the attentive boy a highly favorable opinion of both these personages.
She early felt it; and this feeling became constantly the more painful to her, the farther she advanced into the years when both sexes find an innocent pleasure in being mutually agreeable.
It is made up of both sexes and all ages and conditions; especially of the laboring classes.
Some Indians of both sexes with bowed and blanketed heads stood near it.
There is no commingling of the sexes in the water, as our American custom is, but on the score of modesty I must confess to a prejudice in favor of the American plan, nevertheless.
Union of both sexesin one individual; hermaphroditism.
Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic.
In conclusion, he adjusts the scales with exquisite and scientific precision, holding that ‘the distribution of the sexual impulse between the two sexes is fairly balanced.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
The inhabitants of this town were a small tribe, not more than fifty in number; of both sexes and of every age.
When we approached near her house, a great number of both sexes came out to meet her: These she presented to me, after having intimated by signs that they were her relations, and taking hold of my hand, she made them kiss it.
Canoes were continually coming in during all this fore-noon, and the tents at the fort were crowded with people of both sexes from different parts of the island.
As the column was passing through New Ulm a crowd of exasperated citizens of both sexes showered brickbats and other missiles on the prisoners in such profusion that a bayonet charge was necessary to restrain them.
I think the "conventionalities" are taking too strong a hold in America, and it will not be many years before they are as strict there as they are here, where young people of different sexes can never see anything of each other.
I only wonder how marriages are managed at all, for the sexes seem to live quite isolated from each other.
Four thousand of these hideous dwarfs of both sexes had been brought alive from their native haunts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sexes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
