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Meanings of old bachelor in English

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Usage of old bachelor in English
1
The Judge laughed good-naturedly in the face of the little old bachelor.
Quit Your Worrying!
2
An old bachelor is generally very precise and exact in his habits.
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
3
These boys had a benefactor in an old bachelor named Thomas Bond.
The History of the Telephone
4
Perhaps the old bachelor of forty-three was not thinking of a wife.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
5
And of these we killed four-threeyoung ones, and the old bachelor.
The Gorilla Hunters
6
Daniel, the old bachelor, yielded at once, but in his own style.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
7
He is an old bachelor and comes and goes as he likes.
The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall
8
I'm a graybeard, an old bachelor; so I am accorded certain privileges.
The Ragged Edge
9
A rather frumpy old bachelor, with thinning hair and a thickening neck.
One Basket
10
You seem to have been quite happy as an old bachelor, dear.
Dear Brutus
11
My father was an old bachelor of nearly sixty when he married.
In a glass darkly
12
Well, there was a schoolmaster-youknow, an old bachelor, sly, and amusing.
Look Back on Happiness
13
Didn't I tell you I was cut out for an old bachelor?
Esther : a book for girls
14
The most confirmed old bachelor on the face of the earth.
Sisters
15
The old bachelor is the loneliest and most pathetic of men.
Half a Rogue
16
One of the captains is a widower, and the other an old bachelor.
For Woman's Love
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Old bachelor through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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