So if you're a lonely bachelor at the bottom, it makes evolutionary sense to have more zeal than the typical woman to fight your way up.

"These brave soldiers are of incalculable use to a great many lonely bachelors in London."

When she tells him she's always thought he was a lonely bachelor, he just laughs and leaves.

His disastrous marriage left him a lonely bachelor; like Dodgson (1832-1898) he was subject to fits of unrequited love for little girls.

Could he be a lonely bachelor, taking up with odd company for lack of an ordinary life?

Ralph, a lonely and crotchety bachelor (he was once briefly married, long ago) is a security guard in a midtown garage.

"I recommend it to all you lonely bachelors."

It's not often you take pity on a lonely old bachelor like this.

Quartermaine is a painfully lonely bachelor with seemingly no friends or hinterland other than his colleagues at the school.

Kaj is a quiet, lonely bachelor who owns a hot dog stand in a small northern town.