Day by day, the Tenggerese women-gaunt, scantily-clad, and almost unsexed by incessant toil in the teeth of wind and weather-carry down their burdens to the plain, their backs bent under the weight of the huge crates, while the brown and wizened children are prematurely aged and deformed by their share in the family toil.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
This bore no resemblance to the icy and obstinate lament of the Carmelites, nor was it like the unsexed tone, the child's voice, squeaking, rounded off at the end of the Franciscan nuns, but quite another thing.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
I myself, but yesterday so strong, As new-dipt steel am weak and all unsexed By yonder woman: yea I mourn for them, Widow and orphan, left amid their foes.
"Verses and Translations"
C. S. C.