Desirable as a spouse

Usage examples of eligible.

To drag a cloud of white aerophane behind her over a thick, soft carpet, with three eligible young men in full contemplation of her peerless beauty, was as delicious as though she had been an actress receiving an overwhelming ovation.

However, it was deuced difficult to marry to advantage when one had never been privileged to set eyes upon an eligible and titled gentleman.

She knew every eligible bachelor in Hiho, Ohio, and her dream man was definitely not among them.

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Apparently, there were too few suitors in Khet since the Javanite army drafted many of the eligible men to help fend off various military incursions by barbarians from the north.

There are no eligible lasses at Assynt save for me, so you need not waste your time traveling there.

If an otherwise eligible voter could not afford to pay the taxor simply chose not to spend his hard-earned money to votehe would not be permitted to cast a ballot.

Are there eligible people in the League who would be wiling to volunteer for such service?

That no person excluded from the privilege of holding office by said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be eligible to election as a member of the convention to frame a constitution for any of said rebel States, nor shall any such person vote for members of such convention.

Both beddable, Angelique much more so, both eligible, and marriageable, Maureen much more so.

And everyone knew that before a girl was of marriageable age she had to leave the schoolroom and be launched onto society during the Season and attend plenty of balls and routs and meet many eligible gentlemen, one of whom she would fall in love with, and hopefully he would be the one who asked her brother for her hand in the usual manner.

Lady Trent had spoken more truly than she knew, and would have been as much surprised as dismayed to have learnt that her provoking niece, having repulsed two very eligible suitors, had discovered that no less a personage than the Nonesuch would do for her.

Cottage could never have been described as an eligible residence at any time, since it stood low on a cold, damp slope facing north, on poor, spewy soil, with no means of access but a hollow lane, deep in mud much of the year and impassable after heavy rain.

Tory successor, Sir George Foster, substantiallv increased these subventions, then enacted regulations that only goods travelling to Canada on steamships sailing directly to Canadian ports would be eligible for preferential British tariffs.

On top of that the season was growing busier, and Sir Gerard and Torry would expect her to be present at all the major events where she might encounter eligible young men of good family.