1 It is the comparatively weedy weakling, left mateless by polygyny, who objects.
2 No rom have I, but a mateless bird I wander.
3 Clock yourself on the drive back so we're not hanging around like mateless snow geese.
4 To me it resembles a youthful soul, cut off in its prime, and wandering mateless in eternity.
5 Each man gets one woman, and for every five couples there is a derelict like myself, mateless .
6 I alone of all was mateless -
7 What a strange antithesis appeared this name beside the presence of the childless father, the fatherless child, and the mateless woman!
8 In both it is the anxiety of Nature that neither should be left mateless , part of her tremendous scheme of insurance against mischance.
9 We are young and eager and yet we are mateless and unvisited, and though we lie in unbroken half embrace, we are uncomforted.
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