As best as I understand it, your argument isn't that some men would remain mateless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polygamy, Jealousy, and Social Peace, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

A mateless bird wide torn apart from country and from kind!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

Since I have quite a few of these mateless socks myself, I decided to give it a shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Use Mateless Socks To Spice Up Planters] Reference

You made me love you when you could not love; and love born of despair is mateless ever; it would die in its realization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

When like mateless doves that fly from snare or tether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.] Reference

I alone of all was mateless -- far more wretched I than they.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Union Speaker] Reference

Now that we've pretty much lost the frost, put one of those mateless mittens to use.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Hip Than Hippie Podcast] Reference

If I, a mateless bird, have spent an idle hour in teaching lovers how to sing, why, what of that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference

To me it resembles a youthful soul, cut off in its prime, and wandering mateless in eternity. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

Matched mateless socks while I was at it.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 29th, 2005] Reference

First, I rounded up all the mateless socks I had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Use Mateless Socks To Spice Up Planters] Reference

Both aged and mateless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Net-Braiders] Reference

The song of the mateless woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts] Reference

Roaming in mateless banishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference

As doth the lorn and mateless bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference

Nor wait for mateless nightingale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

And sorrow shuns the mateless bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Henry Timrod] Reference

A dried up stream, a mateless bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer on the Lakes, in 1843] Reference

The mateless, the one, will ye know?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference

Forsake thy books, and mateless play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell] Reference

I saw the mateless mountain eagle wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference

Stalks on the dry sand mateless and alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

And, since I must be mateless, I shall win.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan and Æolus: Poems] Reference

And tales of flesh-devouring mateless maids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference

Spouse of only death in mateless maidenhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.] Reference

While you stood lonely like a mateless bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Comedy] Reference

"But like a bird I am mateless and forlorn.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

Hailed his one brother mateless else of peers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Song] Reference

Then a poor mateless dove that droops despairing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series] Reference

A mateless bird's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andromeda and Other Poems] Reference

401K and those darn mateless socks in there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

"I am mateless, Flint. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mid Flinx]

“I am mateless, Flint. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mid Flinx]

'Oh, sad thy note, my mateless dove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems] Reference

And, mateless, childless, envied more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

'And are not you, too, mateless, Shirley?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

"No rom have I, but a mateless bird I wander.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Money] Reference