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  • Varlet!” answered the Varangian, with an emphasis which made the prizer start, — “but — when that trumpet sounds, it is no time for a soldier to punish insolence as it deserves.”

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • That wretch Hebert, the deputy of Chaumette, and editor of the disgusting paper Pere Duchesne, a writer of the party of which Vincent, Ronsin, Varlet, and Leclerc were the leaders—Hebert had made it his particular business to torment the unfortunate remnant of the dethroned family.

    The Trial Of Marie-Antoinette 14 Oct. 1793 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • That wretch Hebert, the deputy of Chaumette, and editor of the disgusting paper Pere Duchesne, a writer of the party of which Vincent, Ronsin, Varlet, and Leclerc were the leaders—Hebert had made it his particular business to torment the unfortunate remnant of the dethroned family.

    Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet! the time has yet to come that she was ever respected with man, woman, or child.

    Measure for Measure 2004

  • I am afraid our Varlet Poet intended to inculcate, that women think ill of nothing that raises the credit of their beauty, and are ready, however virtuous, to pardon any act which they think incited by their own charms.

    Preface to Shakespeare 2004

  • One following the other, the warships catapulted off of their launch tracks, rose swiftly into space, and formed up behind mine sweepers Scamp, Varlet and Scalawag.

    The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven

  • That wretch Hebert, the deputy of Chaumette, and editor of the disgusting paper Pere Duchesne, a writer of the party of which Vincent, Ronsin, Varlet, and Leclerc were the leaders -- Hebert had made it his particular business to torment the unfortunate remnant of the dethroned family.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if by chance a huge blackhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet [Footnote: Varlet: rascal.] was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

  • Thou presumest and thinkest, thou trifling boy, thou Varlet, and without all reverence, that thou art most worthy and excellent, and that I am not able by reason of myne age to have another son, which if I should have, thou shouldst well understand that I would beare a more worthier than thou.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Hereupon the Imp laid aside his book and weapons and proceeded to roll up his sleeve, having done which to his satisfaction, he faced round upon the Base Varlet.

    My Lady Caprice Jeffery Farnol 1915

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