The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry, the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Chance Abutmenting (a counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl)] Reference
The excitement of the varletry in the square, they say, was fearful to hear. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
Scarcely were we concealed than the varletry of Theophilus burst into our laura. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference
'I will go and fright the varletry with my presence, and secure, I trust, a horse for Your Majesty, and one for myself.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess and Curdie] Reference
She'll not be “chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia,” nor shown “to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare]
With friendly arm, they rais'd us: nathlefs fome Among our old and ftubborn fwains mifdeem'd,, nd envy'd, who enrich'd them; envy'd thofe, hofe virtues taught the varletry of towns To ufeful toil to turn the pilfering hand. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
"chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia," nor shown "to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome.". From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare] Reference
And show me to the shouting varletry. From Wordnik.com. [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference
The varletry will soon be up and about. ". From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
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