| 1. | From Mans effeminate slackness it begins. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Katavasov did not like him, because he was unmanly and effeminate and sickly. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Is not more loath'd than an effeminate ma. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | None do you like but an effeminate prince. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Shall we at last conclude effeminate peac. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a bastard. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | His work is also criticised as being too effeminate for ordinary readers. - from English Literature by William J. Long |