Head House' is frequented by bachelors and boys only; 'What news of your new wife?
Sly bachelors sometimes try to dodge him by stealing around the edge of a certain reef at low tide; but he is up to their tricks, seizes them and dashes them to pieces on the large black stone, just as one shatters rotten fire-wood.
Such a sight, with all the loving thoughts of loving life, ere this maturity of family repose--is it not enough to make old bachelors gaze with envy, and go and advertise for wives?
Both men were bachelors and invariably ready to be interested.
Families were few, bachelors much in the majority; I remember that at one of the community affairs there were eighteen bachelors out of a total attendance of thirty persons!
The tax on bachelors is proposed as a means of getting bachelors to marry; but is this always desirable?
A heavy tax on land values (in extreme, the single-tax) and a heavy tax on bachelors have sometimes been proposed as likely to be eugenic in effect.
It will then be rather an advantage that the bachelors should remain single, and a tax which would force them into marriage for reasons of economy, is not likely to result in any eugenic gain.
Under that regime heiresses were entirely out of proportion in numbers to the bachelors who wanted to marry.
Thus, if the two old bachelors had not been kept asunder by the two political systems of which they each offered a living expression, their private rivalry would still have made them enemies.
In England, bachelors are not left to go forgotten to their solitary graves.
Many laws have been made against bachelors by various nations, who all concurred in considering the bachelor as an enemy to his country and to mankind.
The censors of Rome had power vested in them to lay taxes on the unmarried; and I think I cannot show my impartiality better than in inquiring into the extravagant privileges my brother bachelors enjoy, and fine them accordingly.
But such as pretend an aversion to the whole sex, because they were ill-treated by a particular female, and cover their sense of disappointment in women under a contempt of their favour, shall be proceeded against as bachelors convict.
In the evening we had some music--for both bachelors are musical--the older having a baritone voice, and the younger playing the piano.
Breakfast in bed was the order of the last two mornings, and two visits from a doctor, who won golden opinions from the two jolly bachelors for prescribing change as the best medicine.
There are such lots of bachelors who would marry if they could have two or three wives, just as there are such lots of girls who would marry if they could have two or three husbands.
I fancy that the fact of my three collaborators being allbachelors diminished somewhat our chances of success, in Ethelbertha's mind.
What could a couple of raw bachelors know about life and human nature?
Twenty-two were the number appear'd on the green, For swiftness and courage none like them were seen; Eleven were married to females so fair, The other young gallants bachelors were.
There were several others, who bore to our profession the same relation, which bachelorsof medicine bear to theirs, and who were entitled to subscribe themselves D.
Those who had no bachelors among the opposite factions, fought along with their brothers; others did not scruple even to assist in giving their enamored swains the father of a good beating.
Daughters performed the said offices to their fathers, and sisters to their brothers; not pretermitting those who did not neglect their broken-pated bachelors to whom they paid equal attention.
All monogamists and married women will reply hastily: either bachelors or widowers; and this solution will serve as well as another; for it would be hypocritical to pretend that the difficulty is a practical one.
Your Correspondent certainly must be in error upon these points, as the additional duty to which bachelors in England are liable under the present Tax Acts, for a male Servant, is only 1l.
We old bachelors grow into self-indulgence, which is only another name for barbarism.
The three rich bachelors drew closer to the doctor.
Remember that statistics demonstrate that married people outlive old maids and old bachelors by a goodly number of years and enjoy healthier and happier lives.
Old maids andbachelors always look older than they are.
But the Florida frontier was not a climate in which our Southern bachelors could have acquired the knowledge available when the thermometer was twenty-five degrees below zero--a point at which brandy congealed in the sideboard.
A similar piece of workmanship had been erected in each set of quarters, to supply the deficiency of closets, an inconvenience which had never occurred, until too late, to the bachelors who planned them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bachelors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
