Looking for sentences and phrases with the word varlets? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
When at war, his banner was attended by knights, squires, and grooms, vavasours and varlets.
Even among those who rank, at least by economic criteria, as middle-class, the most proximate precedent for their dress style is that of medieval varlets.
And I never call people varlets, or saucy varlets.
The Winchester Manorhouse has fled bodily, like a Dream of the old Night. House and people, royal and episcopal, lords and varlets, where are they?
Examples from Classical Literature
Two russet-clad varlets, with loud halloo and cracking whips, walked thigh-deep amid the swarm, guiding, controlling, and urging.
Bid the varlets lower the draw-bridge and raise the portcullis.
We may leave our horses here with the varlets, and push forward with our squires.
We are an uncouth, snobby, and withal, shabby-looking set of varlets.
I threw one of his varlets into a thorn hedge, and another into a water-butt, and a third landed head-first into a ditch.
Besides, though the Delaware tongue is the same as a book to the Iroquois, the cunning varlets are quick enough at understanding the reason of a wolf's howl.
The cadaverous, half nude varlets that served in the establishment had nothing of poetry in their appearance, nothing of romance, nothing of Oriental splendor.
These varlets pretend to be bent chiefly on their sun-down meal, but the moment it is dark they will be on our trail, as true as hounds on the scent.
Varlets in green jerkins brandished hunting knives and raised on high tankards of foaming beer.
