non-marrying

Let's talk about the non-marrying man for just a moment.

CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2004 2004

She was in no mood for the barren blossom of non-marrying men's compliments.

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel David Graham Phillips 1889

Therefore he had been set down as a non-marrying man -- "an awfully good fellow, but with queer ideas, you know," his many friends would say, and "Bully"

The Trader's Wife 1901 Louis Becke 1884

Isn't it for the non-marrying girls that it doesn't particularly matter?

The Awkward Age Henry James 1879

The continued care of even one child entails no trifling expenditure, and such care being unnatural, must always, to a certain extent, be irksome; but when the individual instance is multiplied by three or by four, as how often happens in our non-marrying, extravagant age, can any one wonder that a household of daughters is at best regarded as a not unmitigated blessing.

THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE 1869

The continued care of even one child entails no trifling expenditure, and such care being unnatural, must always, to a certain extent, be irksome; but when the individual instance is multiplied by three or by four, as how often happens in our non-marrying, extravagant age, can any one wonder that a household of daughters is at best regarded as a not unmitigated blessing.

The Woman's Advocate. 1869

The continued care of even one child entails no trifling expenditure, and such care being unnatural, must always, to a certain extent, be irksome; but when the individual instance is multiplied by three or by four, as how often happens in our non-marrying, extravagant age, can any one wonder that a household of daughters is at best regarded as a not unmitigated blessing.

A Plea for Daughters. First Paper 1869

Leo is like model fly paper and every time he breaks if off or they get tired of his non-marrying ways, they end up coming back for more.

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