What is "bachelor"

Usage examples of "bachelor".

Shah decided to find a bright miniaturist husband for his beautiful daughter, and toward this end, arranged a competition among the three great young masters of his atelier, all of whom were bachelors.

I need to confirm the party trays for the bachelor and bachelorette parties tonight.

MINUET Great misfortunes do not affect me very much, said John Bridelle, an old bachelor who passed for a sceptic.

Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion-- or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange.

True, it would be of no consequence to the rich bachelor globe-trotter whether Dinny used the printing-equipment or not.

He could follow on the face of the former duellist, who had become the most ardent of Catholics and the most monomaniacal of old bachelors, twenty diverse expressions.

It was not until he was fairly out into the fresh air and saw Gascoyne filling the three leathern buckets at the tank, that he fully awakened to the fact that he was actually doing that hateful service for the bachelors which he had protested he would sooner die than render.

He had felt himself already outrated in rendering service to the bachelors, he had quarrelled with the head of the esquires, he had nearly quarrelled with Gascoyne, and then had come the bitterest and worst of all, the knowledge that his father was an outlaw, and that the Earl would not stretch out a hand to aid him or to give him any countenance.

He was still advancing towards Myles, with two or three of the older bachelors at his heels, when Gascoyne spoke.

One morning, about a week after the fight, as he and Gascoyne were crossing the armory court, they were hailed by a group of the bachelors standing at the stone steps of the great building.

When Myles had made his bow and left his patron, he flew across the quadrangle, and burst into the armory upon Gascoyne, whom he found still lingering there, chatting with one or two of the older bachelors.

The public Gracile was a bachelor, with a hint of mysterious heartbreak in his past.

He was a bachelor and wealthy, but, unfortunately, he had three or four times every year severe attacks of gout, which always left him crippled in some part or other of his body, so that all his person was disabled.

I replied that I was a Venetian, a bachelor, and that I should be glad to accept the letters of introduction he had kindly offered me, after I had had a private conference with him, in which I desired to take his advice on my conscience.

He was a bachelor of forty, who had done good financial service under the Viennese Government, and had now retired with a comfortable pension.