Sentence examples for varlet from inspiring English sources

Jan van Eyck must have been born before 1395, for in October 1422 he is recorded as the varlet de chambre et peintre ("honorary equerry and painter") of John of Bavaria, count of Holland.

Why run through a varlet with a sword?

'You there, varlet,' said Shrek.

She is proudly defiant about her own social origins, rejecting Veda's pretension and furious at Monty for treating her as a "varlet" (ie, servant) – but she also aspires to wealth and has nebulous dreams of "greatness" for her daughter, interchangeably imagined as any kind of vaguely artistic success.

But if a permanent cure for depression really exists, it's surely has to be the sight of a grown man with a needle-point rapier and an equally sharp moustache, leaping around, swinging on chandeliers with Devil-May-Care Abandon, possibly using the word "varlet" and generally locked in mortal swordplay with an arch nemesis matching him quip for quip.

"We are all dreadfully disgusted at the prospect of having a Jew for a prime minister," wrote Lady Palmerston; Salisbury (a member of his own cabinet) habitually wrote of him as a "Hebrew varlet", while to Carlyle he was not only a "Hebrew conjuror" but a "sham-Jew, a quack-Jew".

The Communists are a pain and the others are all varlets and knaves".Mitterrand was cultured and bookish, with a bewitching ability to charm; "he could have seduced a stone", wrote one French female journalist.

"And I never call people varlets, or saucy varlets.

For these 500-plus pages do not bear out what the defamatory label insinuated: that some of the greatest in the world of arts and letters were varlets and curs who sold out to the C.I.A. or were manipulated into servitude by the minions of American imperialism.

Recruiting heavily in such prosperous Hudson River villages as Dobbs Ferry, Larchmont and Tarrytown, these criminal enterprises used seemingly innocuous names like the Varlets, the Fussbudgets, the Foolish Scoundrels and Hell's Ne'er-Do-Wells.

"This could be a great approach to using these kinds of cannabinoids," said Vincent Varlet, who took part in the work.