varlet

How To Use varlet In A Sentence

• She called the varlet within the chapel, and showed him this wonder. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
• Deacon the bailiff with his two varlets went down to the Hall yesternight on the matter of the escuage, and came screaming back with this young hothead raging at their heels. Sir Nigel
• The old man clutched the young painter's arm and said, "Do you see nothing? clodpatel Huguenot! varlet! cullion! The Unknown Masterpiece 1845
• chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia," nor shown "to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome. The Man Shakespeare
• The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry, the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy. Chance Abutmenting (a counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl)
• The Wolf—who was not a warrior of the Blood, but a mere varlet—had a hole in his chest. Wildfire
• He wore an undyed tunic that fell short of his knobby knees, and his sword proved to be the sort of everyday long knife any varlet might have. Wildfire
• This varlet messenger, may be, is mistelling the news," said Master Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War
• The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• Shakespeare to glorify the name of Cranmer or to deify the names of the queen then dead and the king yet living, it is but natural that he should be induced by an unconscious bias or prepossession of the will to depreciate the worth of the verse sent on work fitter for ushers and embalmers and the general valetry or varletry of Church and State. A Study of Shakespeare