24 examples of unsex in sentences

I am no advocate of the practices of the 'strong-minded women,' who hold their conventions and public meetings, who unsex themselves by mounting the forum, and, throwing off the retiring modesty of the true woman, seek to secure notoriety at the price of popular contempt.

Men with shaggy beards and hair all entangled and unkempt, with fierce eyes and lowering glances; women with faces that unsexed them.

Thymus and pineal keep him a child, keep him unsexed.

Their unnatural attempt to be wiser than God, and to unsex themselves, had done little but disease their mind and heart.

But your angel is merely an unsexed woman; and so you are forced to go back to the humanity after allbut to a woman, not a man?

We may spare ourselves the pain of relating the horrors of the September massacre, when, for more than four days, gangs of men worse than devils, and of women unsexed by profligacy and cruelty till they had become worse even than the men, gave themselves up to the work of indiscriminate slaughter, deluging the streets with blood, and where they could spare time, aggravating the pangs of death by superfluous tortures.

V. revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex.

They are transfigured: Lady Macbeth is "unsexed;" Macbeth has forgot that he was born of woman; both are conformed to the image of devils; and the world of devils is suddenly revealed.

In the automobile, on the way to the lynching, he was unsexed by a human fienda well known Centralia business manwho used a razor on his helpless victim.

Cleopatra and St. Hedwiga, Madame de Stael and the Princess, are merely different manifestations of the same self- willed and proud longing of woman to unsex herself, and realise, single and self-sustained, some distorted and partial notion of her own as to what the "angelic life" should be.

I feltfelt unsexed!

To think that a woman is never to be a woman again, whatever she may come to as an unsexed angel,and that she should die unloved!

If we are to tear down all the blessed traditions, if we are to desolate our homes and firesides, if we are to unsex our mothers and wives and sisters and turn our blessed temples of domestic peace into ward political-assembly rooms, pass this joint resolution.

Come, all you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here; And fill me, from the crown to th' toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!

We cannot imagine any hen, however unsexed, behaving like that.

While English women take an active part in elections, holding meetings and canvassing their districts, here, even the wives of judges, governors, and senators speak with bated breath of political movements, and seem to feel that a knowledge of laws and constitutions would hopelessly unsex them.

You regard the true women of earth as a higher and rarer order of creation than the best of men, and any woman who by action or word confesses herself to be quite human in her temperament, you feel is, to a certain extent, "unclean and unsexed."

And unsexed women facing heated blasts And Tophet fumes, and fluttering tongues of fire; And virtue staked on most unholy casts, And honour sold for hire: Squadrons and troops of girls of brazen air, Tramping the tainted city to and fro, With feverish flauntings veiling chill despair And deeply-centred woe.

You debased my ideal, you confused me, also, for I could never affirm that you were wrong; forcing me to consult abstractions, they gave a verdict in your favor, which almost unsexed you in my estimation.

Much less had he lowered his hostile flag to salute her; but he knew instinctively that Harold Jones was the sort of a boy who would unsex himself by looking at a baby.

[Illustration: The sort of boy who would unsex himself by looking at a baby.]

they you unsex You surely are a horse.

It has not broken up existing parties, unsexed women, or made them quarrel with their husbands, or neglect their households.

I said, "woman no more, you have unsexed yourself.

24 examples of  unsex  in sentences