| 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. |
| Bid the varlets lower the draw-bridge and raise the portcullis. |
| And I never call people varlets, or saucy varlets. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
