varlets

2 Ann. 20, that they are the same which the Frenchmen call varlets, but, as that phrase is used in my time, it is very unlikely to be so.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

2 Ann. 20, that they are same which the Frenchmen call varlets, but, as the phrase is used in my time, it is very unlikely to be so.

Of Degrees of People in the Commonwealth of Elizabethan England. Chapter I. [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5 1909

All damoiseaux were not as courteous as Aucassins, nor all "varlets" as rude as his peasants; we shall see how the young gentlemen of Picardy treated the peasantry for no offence at all; but Aucassins carried a softer,

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Members were accustomed to travel and to attach themselves to the service of various princes, receiving appointments as "varlets" or

Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873

Return unto the science fictional midden from whence thou didst most unbiddenly spring, varlets!

Fantasy Challenge #3: The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

Sire Galan dismissed Spiller and Rowney and the other varlets with a gesture.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

We went ashore, Sire Galan and his friends and their varlets and me, and we followed the warriors of Ardor up the steps.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Then the Crux sent his varlets around to tell us we were not leaving that morning, perhaps later in the day.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

What little I knew was stale as old bread, tales of varlets who rebelled when their master fed them salt cod, and baggage carts drowning in mud.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Catena and I were in the lee of the wall, Lame on one side and Chunner on the other, in the midst of a crowd of varlets.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009