handsel

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Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage, Defoe and Fielding were inspired to imitation, and today Lazarillo is acclaimed as the prototype of the picaresque novel, as a handsel of the arriving era of realism in European literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

When you have become expert at it, you may always keep yourself neat and tidy about the legs, on Sundays and handsel Mondays.

From The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People by Blackford, Mrs. (Martha)

The disguised ladies take the handsel from them, without knowing that they are bound by it, until the sheriff arrives to confirm the bargain.

From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

Give us a handsel of the bargain; let us enjoy you, and 'tis a match.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

His companions had promised to elect him captain; but then he must give them handsel for that, and the gold chain would just sell for the sum he wanted.

From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Meinhold, Wilhelm