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单词 the sterner sex
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the sterner sex

archaic Men regarded in contrast to women.And what makes such nonessential activities seem so vital to members of the sterner sex, when their sisters are generally just as happy to forgo them?...
  • To the sterner sex the mantle of virtue is no less becoming; and fidelity is as much of an adornment and requirement to them as of the gentler sex.
  • Society exacts of woman minute attention to little formalities which would be excused in a man in this land, where the sterner sex are almost to a unit immersed in business or politics.
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