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• The one I came to know as the female was so much harassed by the other that she could get no food; and the points of her wings—or rather bones, which represent wings in other birds—were so lacerated by dashing against a stone wall in her endeavours to escape from her mate, that they bled for about ten days, and I thought she would bleed to death. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
• If casual fans come out to watch Baylor because a female is actually playing above the rim, that will be wonderful for Griner and the school -- but not so great for the sport. —  SFGate: Top News Stories
• When the female is about to deposit her eggs, the male mounts upon her back and rides about until the eggs are all deposited, discharging upon them the fertilizing spermatozoa as they are laid by the female In higher orders of animals, fecundation takes place within the generative organs of the female by contact between the male and the female organs. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young
• Thus commenced the reign of Queen Victoria over the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland One effect of the descent of the crown to a female was the separation from it of Hanover, after an union which had lasted for nearly a century and a quarter. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• IN the progress and settlement of the feudal law, the male succession to fiefs had taken place some time before the female was admitted; and estates, being considered as military benefices, not as property, were transmitted to such only as could serve in the armies, and perform in person the conditions upon which they were originally granted. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John

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