What if I cut the Gordian knot, and here make, once for all, a vow of perpetual celibacy?'

In the small, quaint rooms of Peter-House, Gray consumed a dreary celibacy, consoled by the Muse alone, whoif other damsels found no charms in his somewhat piggish, wooden countenance, or in his manners, replete, it is said, with an unpleasant consciousness of superioritynever deserted him.

And why not? Ecclesiastical celibacy is an invention of men, a detail of discipline agreed upon at the councils; but the flesh and its exigencies are anterior by many centuries; they date from Paradise.

The two important ones deal with the doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit, and the enforced celibacy of the clergy.

The suitors disappeared, one by one, and the beautiful princess seemed doomed to eternal celibacy.

Mothers, besides, have a trembling foresight, which paints the inconveniences (impossible to be conceived in the same degree by the other parent) of a life of forlorn celibacy, which the refusal of a tolerable match may entail upon their child.

Thus I have hitherto, in spite of myself, passed my life in frozen celibacy.

" "You observe that my respected junior condemns me to lifelong celibacy," Thorndyke remarked.

The old nobility of their stock, including particularly the unnamed blood of her of the lettre de cachet, showed forth in a gracefulness of carriage, that almost identified a De Grandissime wherever you saw him, and in a transparency of flesh and classic beauty of feature, that made their daughters extra-marriageable in a land and day which was bearing a wide reproach for a male celibacy not of the pious sort.

I correct the results thus far obtained on the following grounds:(B) the relative mortality of the two classes between childhood and maturity; (C) the relative mortality of the rural and urban mothers during childbearing ages; (D) their relative celibacy; and (E) the span of a rural and urban generation.

It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of dehumanizing celibacy.

All their priests shave their heads and beards, and are clothed in yellow; and they live in companies of one or two hundred together, observing strict celibacy.