Females
[fi:meɪlz]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Female sex, the fair, the fair sex.
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Examples
- Opening the door, he spoke a few words quickly but quietly to two females who ran to meet him in the passage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At a signal from Dak Kova the doors of two cages were thrown open and a dozen green Martian females were driven to the center of the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They were four in number, two males and two females. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The other occupants of the room, five in number, were all females, and they were still sleeping, piled high with a motley array of silks and furs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But, in a corner, sitting apart from the rest, are two females of a more interesting appearance than common. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No, he said, they share alike; the only difference between them is that the males are stronger and the females weaker. Plato. The Republic.
- We met baggage waggons, and many females of high and low rank returning to Fairy or Kishan, there to wait the issue of the expected day. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Between five and six thousand work people were employed, the greater part of whom were females, and it was necessary to use steam and water motors, to the extent of many hundred horse power. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With animals having separated sexes, there will be in most cases a struggle between the males for the possession of the females. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The other, however, dealt a single blow with his cruel tail that laid both of the females crushed corpses upon the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Among them moved red and white females serving their every want. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Before the drum sat three old females, each armed with a knotted branch fifteen or eighteen inches in length. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At this moment we came in close contact with some females whose language made our blood run cold. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They make the powder, the cartridges, the firearms; in fact everything of value is produced by the females. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Bar Comas was stone dead, and only the most herculean efforts on the part of Dak Kova's females saved him from the fate he deserved. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The adult females ranged in height from ten to twelve feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Our females would live for ever but for the fact that we tire of them and remove them to make place for others. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I do not mean to say that all females are so. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The dews at this hour is unwholesome for females, observed Joe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You have a good heart, I know, ma'am, and we females ought naturally to assist each other in all our little peccadillos, remarked my companion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Lastly, in certain breeds, the males and females have come to differ in a slight degree from each other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No matter, reasoned I, we females must not suffer love or pleasure to glow in our eyes, until we are quite sure of a return. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Now dogs are not divided into hes and shes--we do not take the masculine gender out to hunt and leave the females at home to look after their puppies. Plato. The Republic.
- He should have been a cockerel, so he could strut before fifty females, all his subjects. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The exceptions consisted of a few high-born females, who, panic-struck, and tamed by sorrow, had joined him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In some instances the males alone, in other instances, both males and females, have been observed thus to differ in a slight degree. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Peace of mind and happiness of confiding females,' murmured Mr. Winkle, with an air of abstraction. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The rule applies to males and females; but more rarely to females, as they seldom offer remarkable secondary sexual characters. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He saw the females and the young scamper to the safety of the trees. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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