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Definition of Bachelors
1. bachelor [n] - See also: bachelor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bachelors
Literary usage of Bachelors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"The bachelors grumbled, and said 'twas no use, 'Twas cruel injustice and horrid
abuse, And declared that, to save their own heart's blood from spilling, ..."
2. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"THE bachelors' LEAGUE. l850. BY many highly respectable unmarried men, it has
long bcen felt as a great grievance, that they should be liable to certain ..."
3. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"THE TWO OLD bachelors Two old bachelors were living in one house; ... And then
those two old bachelors ran quickly to the town And asked for Sage and Onions ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1845)
"One of the articles of our creed is, that all bachelors who cannot render ...
If men are bachelors it is by choice, not by any necessity imposed upon them. ..."
5. New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand Dept. of Statistics (1900)
"Of the marriages solemnised in 1899, 4905 were between bachelors and spinsters,
184 between bachelors and widows, 252 between widowers and spinsters, ..."
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