Bachelors and would-be-manly boys are not the only consumers of tobacco, though they are the best patrons of the bar.

Bachelors and maidens who mingle by hundreds may remain bachelors and maidens.

What do you say, Topper?" Topper clearly had his eye on one of Scrooge's niece's sisters, for he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outcast, who had no right to express an opinion on the subject.

By reason of the bright eyes and the worship of his friend, the bachelor becomes knight and learns chivalry.

There the genteel male population forsake their birthplace at an early age; and since war no longer exists to supply their place with the irresistible military, the importance of a single man, however small his attractions, however advanced his age, is considerable; while a tolerably agreeable bachelor under sixty is the object of universal attention, the cynosure of every lady's eye.

Bachelors always are the bravest men.