There are always many bachelors in every tribe.

If the people of Ballysantamalo are so decent, how is it that there are so many bachelors there?

No wonder there are so many bachelors about, and no wonder there is an outcry to "tax them."

There were already a great many bachelors in the colony, and there were no young women there for them to marry.

When Lucas the butler saw Griflet so lie, he horsed him again anon, and they two did marvellous deeds of arms with many bachelors.