Within thirty-six hours of her arrival at Dufferin Bluff she had every one of the half-dozen eligibles at her feet, not to mention a score or more ineligibles.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
She had been proposed to by "half the eligibles and all the ineligibles in London," as Bowen phrased it; but she declared she would never marry until Peter married, and had thus got somebody else to mother him.
"Patricia Brent, Spinster"
Herbert Jenkins
As a rule, only boys and ineligibles care about dancing.
"My Little Sister"
Elizabeth Robins