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Plain or pretty?" "Elderly half-length, feminine gender Madame Tapotte. They are both there, Monsieur and Madame Excellent couple redolent of the country husband bucolic, adipose, auriferous wife arrayed in all her glory, like the Queen of Sheba.
"That's a new one to me," ejaculated the editor of the Star in surprise. "I always thought 'Spring' was of the feminine gender." "Not this year," returned Roger merrily as he passed by. He was dressed like a tree trunk in a long brown cambric robe that fitted him closely and gave him at the foot only the absolute space that he needed for walking.
Miss Roxy and Miss Ruey Toothacre were two brisk old bodies of the feminine gender and singular number, well known in all the region of Harpswell Neck and Middle Bay, and such was their fame that it had even reached the town of Brunswick, eighteen miles away.
With both, you see nothing; with one, you see better, fifty times better, than with both before. Don't talk of arithmetic after that. It is algebra now, and quod demonstrandum." "To reason with the less worthy gender is degeneration of reason. What would they have said in the Senate-house, Janetta? However, I will obey your orders. What am I to look at?"
No man who is cautious would dream of trusting to an explanation of this kind simply because it explained one particular set of facts. Before you can possibly be safe in dealing with Nature who is very properly made of the feminine gender, on account of the astonishing tricks which she plays upon her admirers!
Thanks to his intervention, many had conclusively settled their boundaries.... But after two or three tussles with lady-landowners, he announced that he declined all mediation between persons of the feminine gender. He could not bear the flurry and excitement, the chatter of women and the 'fuss. Once his house had somehow got on fire.
To which Higgins adds: "And I maintain that it means the figure which is often found in collections of ancient statues, most beautifully executed, and called the Hermaphrodite." As in the old language there was no neuter gender, the gods must always appear either as female or male.
"'He' or 'she' might have been glad because they are masculine and feminine, but could 'it' have been glad?" asked Miss Dearborn, who was very fond of splitting hairs. "Why not?" asked Rebecca. "Because 'it' is neuter gender." "Could n't we say, 'The kitten might have been glad if it had known it was not going to be drowned'?"
But she did not escape his notice, and after coolly surveying her for a moment, he walked up to her, saying, "How d'ye, polywog? I'll be hanged if I know to what gender you belong woman or gal which is it, hey?" "None of your business," was 'Lena's ready answer. "Spunky, ain't you," said he, unceremoniously pulling one of the brown curls which Durward had so longed to touch.
Reilly, I couldn't make use of any other gender but the feminine without violating prosody; for although I'm not so sharp at my Latin as I was, still I couldn't use ignarus, as you see, without fairly committing myself as a scholar; and indeed, if I went to that, it would surely be the first time I have been mistaken for a dunce."
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