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He was slight, smooth-skinned, shy-mannered, and wore the gold chain of a Foreteller, one of the Celibates, “I’m a friend of one who befriended you,” he said, with the brusqueness of the timid.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Celibates, according to his opinion, were the same as phacocytes, their function being to help the weak and the sickly particles of the organism.

From Resurrection by Maude, Louise Shanks

Looking back over the twenty years since "Celibates" was first published I find that the George Moore of the earlier year is the George Moore of to-day.

From Celibates by Moore, George (George Augustus)

It would have furnished Mr. George Moore with material for another story for the volume called "Celibates."

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl

When Celibates appeared, Henry Harland said that Mildred Lawson was worthy of Flaubert if it had been written in good English, which is a manifest epigram.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James