"Gender" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its way then, and Fairchild his, still wondering; the sheriff's question, with a different gender, recurring ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... modestly. "I'm not tall enough to please everyone of the feminine gender. But you think your wife ...
— The Lamp in the Desert • Ethel M. Dell
... immaterial," he said. "I have sent my man to offer him my Du Vallon, and Smith will go with him to explain its humors. You, as a skilled motorist, understand that a car is of the feminine gender. Like any other charming demoiselle, it demands the exercise of tact—it yields willingly ...
— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy
... King can do no wrong'' was carried to an extreme length when a schoolboy blunder of Louis XIV. was allowed to change the gender of a French noun. The King said "un carosse,'' and that is what it is now. In Cotgrave's Dictionary carosse appears as feminine, but Mnage notes it as having been changed ...
— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley
... mocks us all"—as Horace said of old: From sheer perversity, that arch-offender Still yokes unequally the hot and cold, The short and tall, the hardened and the tender; He bids a Socrates espouse a scold, And makes a Hercules forget his gender:— Sic visum Veneri! Lest samples fail, I add a fresh one from the page ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson
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