What is "bachelorhood"

Usage examples of "bachelorhood".

Germany--for it is there, I presume, he has gone--back to the scenes of his bachelorhood, unprotected by the influence of his wife!

Better give it up at once, and go back to my books and my bachelorhood, if I were so difficult to please.

Though, logically, my pilgrimage had ended with the unexpected discovery of Sylvia Joy, yet there were two famous feminine types of which, seeing that I was in Paris, I thought I might as well make brief studies, before I returned to London and finally resumed the bachelorhood from which I had started.

I told the aunt that I found her niece so pretty that I would renounce my bachelorhood if I could find such a mate.

His lifelong affinity for bachelorhood and the simple freedoms it allowed had been shaken somehow.

His bachelorhood was ending, and a life of responsibility was beginning.

The conditions of club life, with as many domestic hearths to visit as he wished, and to stay away from when he chose, the luxury and freedom of pampered bachelorhood, had not only been deemed appropriate, but necessary to his peculiar needs and organisation.

She had accepted his proposal without illusions, only to discover too late that his long bachelorhood had left him with a set of habits and fantasies which made it impossible for him to fulfil his part of the bargain.

There were never any specifics or details, simply that the bookish, gentle Souter and his lifelong bachelorhood seemed to fit the stereotype.

Joe had met a wonderful, freckle-faced flight attendant named Maggie in September, and he was more than ready to leave bachelorhood behind.

But a group marriage, such as our Long Family, combines the advantages of bachelorhood, monogamy, and polygamy, with the drawbacks of none.

But after seventeen years of miserable bachelorhood I've come to understand why Noah's Ark was not a singles' cruise.