And an athletic middle-aged bachelor might be exhorted to buy a new pair of running shoes.

Potiphar Breen is a middle-aged bachelor with a settled, orderly life, and a rather unusual hobby.

He is a middle-aged bachelor and merchant by trade who has his financial interests tied up in overseas shipments when the play begins.

"Try and think of me as a friend and not an interfering, middle-aged bachelor who thinks he knows everything."

Aist is a middle-aged bachelor who leads a lonely life in the northern town of Neya.

But all I could remember was an elderly granduncle, some distant cousins, and a trio of middle-aged bachelors.

A middle-aged bachelor, he is an expert on ales served at the local pubs.

"I'm afraid I'm not much of an uncle, my dear, you must forgive a middle-aged bachelor."

They'd even invited the middle-aged bachelor to make his home with them in Redstone Castle.

The messenger made a long speech that was unintelligible to a middle-aged, childless bachelor.