Among those who were to receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts was a young man named Stevenson, who had composed an oration to be delivered on the platform.

All these years it's kinda gone downeven more than when I was a bachelor in it.

What good is such an estate to an aging bachelor like me, who can never visit it?

But this furious passion is most eminent in men, and is as well amongst bachelors as married men.

He was an old bachelor without friends, and he held the misanthropical opinion that disinterested friendship did not exist upon earth.

The owner himself was not so literary, and had bought the degree of bachelor for 108 taels (about 35l.).

I hate sentimental bosh as much as you hate slang, and should have been a bachelor to this day if I hadn't seen Kitty jest as I did.

He was a wealthy bachelor with an engrossing interest in life, free to go whither he would and to do whatsoever he wished.

In fact, this lady was a born match-maker; and she at once proceeded, by hints here and raillery there, to promote a match between Marianne, aged seventeen, and Colonel Brandon, a grave but sensible bachelor on the wrong side of thirty-five.

"Never would have thought it, eh?" chuckled Webb Atchison, a fine and prosperous figure of a bachelor past his first youth but not yet arrived at middle age, and with the look of one who does what he pleases with other people.

What better music for a lonely old bachelor than children's voices?" So, by sunset the major was fairly established over Mrs. Harvey's shop.

"But we want to see the bachelor at work there.

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.

The candidates for admission are nominated by the members of Congress, one for each congressional district, in addition to which the President of the United States has the nomination of forty from the Republic at large.[AV] The requisites for admission arethe passing a very easy examination, being a bachelor between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, and having no physical defect.

"We hope we have another bachelor by-and-by," said Madame Marotte, addressing herself to the young ladies, who looked down and giggled.

My reputation as an indigent bachelor out of a job won't stand many onslaughts of company dressed as you are.